The Americas’ new republics first modeled what modern nations should look like

Evidence

In other words, the concrete formation of contemporary nation-states is by no means isomorphic with the determinate reach of particular print-languages. To account for the discontinuity-in-connectedness between print-languages, national consciousness, and nation-states, it is necessary to turn to the large cluster of new political entities that sprang up in the Western hemisphere between 1776 and 1838, all of which self-consciously defined themselves as nations, and, with the interesting exception of Brazil, as (non-dynastic) republics. For not only were they historically the first such states to emerge on the world stage, and therefore inevitably provided the first real models of what such states should ‘look like,’ but their numbers and contemporary births offer fruitful ground for comparative enquiry. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 192

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the creole-pioneer thesis that the Islamophobia canon often opposes to Eurocentric models of nationhood — connect to race-thinking and statelessness modules. — connects to: Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 218; Europe described the New World using its own preexisting categories and frameworks; The modern state turned an exceptional status into a universal potential — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 706 (+1 more)

Related

• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.83)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.81)
• Later European nationalisms differed from American ones in print-language centrality and visible models. (similarity 0.81)
• Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did #corroborates (0.83) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 218
• Europe described the New World using its own preexisting categories and frameworks #complicates (0.77)
• The modern state turned an exceptional status into a universal potential #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 706
• Renaming the nation Haiti negated the entire history of European empire in the Americas #exemplifies (0.75)