 Nationalism has been identified as a relatively modern phenomenon—with some theorists pinpointing its rise with the French Revolution, and the associated principle of self-determination; and others with the rise of print media, which created a community of people who shared similar political values and aspirations and identities, but were not related in a face-to-face way (Anderson 1983). Nationalism, even in its earliest versions, appealed to the idea of a ‘national homeland’, but this was not defended philosophically, nor grounded in terms of any particular values. More recently, several theorists (Miller 2007; Meisels 2009; Gans 2003) have sought to defend liberal nationalism, which involves articulating an account of how a nation can come to have a particular territory. The structure of this argument—identifying a link between the right-holding group (the nation) and the land—has a Lockean structure, but the right-holder is not the individual person, but instead a collective—the nation. 