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Whatever the uncertain aspects of Europe’s eastern and western fringes, by 1815 itsgeneral boundaries were evident enough to contemporaries: the Mediterranean Sea onthe south, the Atlantic Ocean on the west, Scandinavia (or its sparsely settled Arcticregions) on the north, the Ural Mountains to the northeast, and the Black and Caspianseas to the southeast, with a further boundary of the Caucasus Mountains stretchingbetween them. Within these broad, palpable geographic boundaries there was an intricatenetwork of internal barriers and byways – seas, rivers, mountains, swamps, andplains – that established some of the preconditions provided by nature for nation-buildingand national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The celebratednineteenth-century German historian Leopold von Ranke (birth and death dates of figuresdiscussed in the text are to be found in the index) argued that Europe’s uniquegreatness and creativity were explained by the fact that it was composed of manynations, within various and often imperfect natural frontiers, in enduringly productiveinterplay with one another; they were not a single political unit or centrally directedempire, yet they were able repeatedly to unite sufficiently to repel intrusion from non-European powers. Europe’s many states were never, or at least not for long, completelydominated by one of their own states; they remained enduringly separate yet still partperadaban besar diidentifikasi.
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