George L. Mosse's scientific contributions

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... The issue becomes even more crucial when, with the extension of suffrage, the citizen is called upon to decide the fate of the community through the exercise of the vote within the framework defined by the nation-state. The synthesis of people, nation and (individual) citizenship reflects a continuity between the era of nation-state consolidation in the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century, when European states saw the greatest national mobilisation in their history (Hobsbawm, 1994;Mosse, 2023). In this sense, the rise of nationalism, the modern state, citizenship and political democracy are closely intertwined. ...