Describe the nature of nationalism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
The nature of nationalism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was as mentioned below : It no longer retained its idealistic liberal-democratic sentiment of the first-half of the century but became a narrow creed with limited ends. During this period nationalist groups became increasingly intolerant of each other and ever ready to go to war. The major European powers manipulated the nationalist aspirations of the subject peoples in Europe to further their own imperialist aims.
