Later European nationalisms differed from American ones in print-language centrality and visible models.

Evidence

If we consider the character of these newer nationalisms which, between 1820 and 1920, changed the face of the Old World, two striking features mark them off from their ancestors. First, in almost all of them ‘national print-languages’ were of central ideological and political importance, whereas Spanish and English were never issues in the revolutionary Americas. Second, all were able to work from visible models provided by their distant, and after the convulsions of the French Revolution, not so distant, predecessors. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 284

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early American nationalisms did not depend on language difference — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 212; Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 488; Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 22 (+2 more)

Related

• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.88)
• Early American nationalisms did not depend on language difference (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.87)
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.83)
• Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• The Americas’ new republics first modeled what modern nations should look like (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.80)
• Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World (similarity 0.79)
• Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism was invented in colonial Creole societies, not Europe. (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.78)
• Languages came to be seen as the property of specific national communities (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements #corroborates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 22
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 284
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models #qualifies (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 488