Wealth and schooling determined where nationalist revolution began earlier

Evidence

In those towns which were less poor, which had some well-to-do inhabitants and a few schools, and therefore a few individuals who could at least read and understand the ancient writers, the revolution began earlier and could make more rapid and more comforting progress. In some of these towns, schools are already being enlarged, and the study of foreign languages and even of those sciences which are taught in Europe [sic] is being introduced into them. The wealthy sponsor the printing of books translated from Italian, French, German, and English; they send to Europe at their expense young men eager to learn; they give their children a better education, not excepting girls … — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 309

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 480; National consciousness developed before mass literacy and print capitalism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 217; Nationalist intellectuals depended on small, powerful literate reading publics as consumers — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 301 (+3 more)

Related

• Nationalist intellectuals depended on small, powerful literate reading publics as consumers (similarity 0.81)
• Cultivated middle classes drove vernacular nationalist movements across Europe (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Urbanization and schooling seeded Somalia’s first nationalist stirrings before 1940 #exemplifies (0.92)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 488
• Colonial segregation in classrooms and army service drove Krim toward revolution #qualifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 237