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...Portugal. In the two decades after Europe's revolutionary tremors of 1848, more than 200,000 European Jews, most of them German-speaking, migrated to the U.S. Their Americanization was rapid and thorough, gave rise to a Reform Judaism that outspokenly rejected the traditional idea of Jewish nationhood...
...left behind filled an eventful Brazilian era. The stocky, inscrutable little man-he was just 5 ft. 2 in. tall-dominated Latin America's biggest country for a generation, and turned it from a scattered confederacy of bickering states into a republic with all the attributes of modern nationhood, including the most rabid sort of nationalism...
...Nation. Templer's favorite theme, in kampong and city alike, was Malayan nationhood. He saw no way of reconciling the 2,000,000 industrious Chinese (who dominate the economy) with the 2,700,000 easygoing Malays (who dominate the politics), except in a sense of common patriotism. To break down the color bar, Templer forced the diehard British to open their posh clubs to men of all races. To give the Chinese a stake in the country, he pressed for (and got) common citizenship, entitling the Chinese to vote. The Malays, appalled, called Templer pro-Chinese, but he turned...
...become, in due course, a self-governing nation . . . within the British Commonwealth." Templer pushed through a constitutional revision which will 1) permit national elections, 2) give the National Assembly a narrow majority of elected (over appointed) members. In principle, at least, the new constitution is a big step towards nationhood...
...faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards, and the Portuguese beat a retreat; to Europe itself, where it mingled with British liberalism and the surge of the French Revolution (1789) to stir Poles, Czechs and Hungarians into clamor for nationhood. Imperialism in Europe faltered; it went down to defeat in the carnage of major...