Editing Romantic nationalism (section)

===Nationalism and revolution===
[[File:Carga de O'Higgins.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Romanticized painting of the [[Battle of Rancagua]] during the [[Chilean War of Independence]] by [[Pedro Subercaseaux]]]]
In the Balkans, Romantic views of a connection with [[classical Greece]], which inspired [[Philhellenism]] infused the [[Greek War of Independence]] (1821–30), in which the Romantic poet [[Lord Byron]] died of high fever. [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]]'s opera ''[[William Tell (opera)|William Tell]]'' (1829) marked the onset of the [[Opera|Romantic opera]], using the central [[national myth]] unifying Switzerland; and in Brussels, a riot (August 1830) after an opera that set a doomed romance against a background of foreign oppression ([[Daniel-François-Esprit Auber|Auber]]'s ''[[La Muette de Portici]]'') sparked the [[Belgian Revolution]] of 1830–31, the first successful revolution in the model of Romantic nationalism. [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s opera choruses of an oppressed people inspired two generations of patriots in Italy, especially with "Va pensiero" (''[[Nabucco]]'', 1842). Under the influence of romantic nationalism, among economic and political forces, both Germany and Italy found political unity, and movements to create nations similarly based upon ethnic groups. It would flower in the Balkans (see for example, the [[Carinthian Plebiscite]], 1920), along the Baltic Sea, and in the interior of Central Europe, where in the eventual outcome, the [[Habsburg]]s succumbed to the surge of Romantic nationalism.<ref>[[Miroslav Hroch]], "Introduction: National romanticism", in Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček, eds. ''Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe'', vol. II ''National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements'', 2007:4ff.</ref>

In [[Norway]], romanticism was embodied, not in literature, but in the movement toward a national style, both in architecture and in ''[[ethos]]''.<ref>Oscar Julius Falnes, ''National romanticism in Norway'', 1968.</ref> Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] rationalism in the rhetoric used in [[North America]], in the American colonists' [[United States Declaration of Independence|declaration of independence]] from [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and the drafting of the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]] of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the [[Spanish American wars of independence|wave of rebellions]], inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from the May Revolution of [[Argentina]] in 1810.{{cn|date=August 2018}}