The Latin Origins of Nationalism and Socialism

For this first entry in my series on the history of the "national socialist epoch" as I term it, we take a step back to get a grasp of the topic's ancient roots, to trace the concepts of empire, populism, and the nation to their roots in the Latin countries of France and Italy, and to advance our understanding of French and Italian conditions, Bonapartism, and Young Italy, all the way up until the revolutions of 1848, where we stop in order to pick up in chapter 2. This is the first of three more introductory overview-style chapters in this series before we begin talking about Georges Sorel and the intellectual currents that inspired him and were inspired by him in these countries. 0:00 Introducing the "national socialist epoch" 10:49 The Latins and Ancient Rome 32:03 Petrarch's "Dark Ages," Feudalism, and the second Latin Empire 54:23 Southern Italy 1:01:19 The Bourgeois Class, Bourgeois Values, and Absolutism 1:10:56 The First French Revolution 1:24:26 The First French Empire 1:32:07 The Restoration, Liberalism, Socialism, and Nationalism 1:42:48 The Second French Revolution and the Italian Movement BIBLIOGRAPHY Il Fascismo Giorno Per Giorno, edited by Giovanni Scirocco A Cosmopolitanism of Nations, Giuseppe Mazzini Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark Between Salt Water and Holy Water by Tommaso Astarita Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport Risorgimento by Lucy Riall Garibaldi by Lucy Riall The Cult of Violence by Jack Roth Napoleon by Vincent Cronin Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts The French Revolution and Napoleon by Charles Downer Hazen Pursuit of Power by Richard Evans Earliest Italy by Massimo Pallottino Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus History of Italy by Colonel Procter And other things as well which I have probably forgotten to mention.