Alfred Eckhard Zimmern Quotes
A nation is not a territorial unit. There are probably more Irishmen outside Ireland, more Norwegians outside Norway, more Jews outside Palestine, perhaps also more Scotsmen, Slovaks and Letts outside Scotland, Slovakia and Latvia than in the compact area of territory with which their national sentiments are related.
See {640101} for his view of the relationship between language and nationality and {640100} for his definition of a nation which is what most people use.
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, 1879-1957, British Historian and Political Scientist, ‘Nationalism and Internationalism”, Foreign Affairs, March 1923
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See {640102} and {640101} for his view of what a nation is not.
See {640102} for his view of the relationship between territory and nationality and {640100} for his definition of a nation which is what most people use.
Most immigration reformers want to open immigration more widely. Ward wanted immigration restricted to certain ethnicities and limited. He wanted a uniformity of assimilation and not diversity.
- Born: January 26, 1879
- Died: November 24, 1957
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- Profession: Classical Scholar, Historian
Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. His book The Third British Empire was among the first to apply the expression "British Commonwealth" to the British Empire. He is also credited with the phrase "welfare state", which was made popular a few years later by William Temple.
