Editing Nation (section)

== Early modern nations ==
{{See also|Nation state}}
In his article, "The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of the Modernist Theory of Nationalism", [[Philip S. Gorski]] argues that the first modern [[Nation state|nation-state]] was the [[Dutch Republic]], created by a fully modern political nationalism rooted in the model of [[biblical nationalism]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Philip S. |last=Gorski |title=The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of the Modernist Theory of Nationalism |journal=[[American Journal of Sociology]] |volume=105 |number=5 |date=2000 |pages=1428–68 |doi=10.1086/210435 |jstor=3003771 |s2cid=144002511 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3003771 |access-date=27 April 2023 |archive-date=4 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204162126/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3003771 |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2013 article "Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states", [[Diana Muir|Diana Muir Appelbaum]] expands Gorski's argument to apply to a series of new, Protestant, sixteenth-century nation states.<ref>{{cite book |first=Diana Muir |last=Appelbaum |chapter=Biblical nationalism and the sixteenth-century states |title=National Identities |date=2013 |volume=15 |issue=4 |page=317 |url=https://www.academia.edu/4879193}}</ref> A similar, albeit broader, argument was made by [[Anthony D. Smith]] in his books, ''Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity'' and ''Myths and Memories of the Nation''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Anthony D. |last=Smith |title=Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Anthony D. |last=Smith |title=Myths and Memories of the Nation |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=1999}}</ref>

In her book ''Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity'', [[Liah Greenfeld]] argued that nationalism was invented in England by 1600. According to Greenfeld, England was “the first nation in the world".<ref>{{cite book |first=Steven |last=Guilbert |title=The Making of English National Identity |url=http://www.cercles.com/review/R12/kumar7.htm |access-date=17 March 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201948/http://www.cercles.com/review/R12/kumar7.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Liah |last=Greenfeld |title=Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |date=1992}}</ref>

For Smith, creating a 'world of nations' has had profound consequences for the global state system, as a nation comprises both a cultural and political identity. Therefore, he argues, "any attempt to forge a national identity is also a political action with political consequences, like the need to redraw the geopolitical map or alter the composition of political regimes and states".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Anthony D. |title=National Identity |date=1991 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9780140125658 |page=99}}</ref>