n of national integrity.
For example, when Louis XIV of France seized the free imperial city of
Strasbourg on the Rhine in 1681, the people of the city accepted him as
their king because he had not derailed their desire for a collective
However, by the 19th century nationalist sentiments were becoming strongly
based in political and geographic boundaries. This was due to changes in
the social order. People groups were no longer identifies as independent
tribes, or cities. Relationships between cities, and tribes had evolved in
geographic regions, as the advent of capitalism replaced agrarian and
feudal economies. Can there be established a causal connection between the
development of capitalism and the development of nationalism' 'Capitalism'
and 'nationalism' have, respectively, different historical definitions.
According to Llobera, (1994) the classical sociological
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