Age of Revolutions
By - Group 1
The Age of Revolutions (1830 - 1848)
The Rise of Nationalism in Europe French Revolution (1789)
Napoleonic wars begin (1797) Fall of Napoleon and the
Conservatives Regime
Revolutions (1830 - 1848)
INTRODUCTION
Revolutions led by the liberal nationalists
belonging to the Educated
1. France Middle Class.
2. Belgium Among whome were
3. Greece Professors, teachers, clerks
etc
THESE REVOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT PLACES WERE AS
FOLLOWS
France Belgium Greece
The July Revolution The Greeks fought
The first disruption led to an uprising in for independence
occured in France Brussels which led from the Ottoman
where they overthrew to Belgium’s Empire and got
recognised as a
the bourbon dynasty separation from the separate nation
Netherlands called greece
The Romantic Imagination
and National Feeling
Culture played an important role in creating
the idea of the nation.
Art and poetry, stories and music helped
express and shape nationalist feelings.
Romantic artists and poets generally criticized
the glorification of reason and science and
focused on emotions, intuition and mystical
feelings.
The Idealogy of The Romantics
Romantics such as the German philosopher Johann
Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) claimed that true German
culture was to be discovered among the common
people- das volk.
It was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances
that the true spirit of the nation(volksgeist) was
popularized
The emphasis on vernacular language and the
collection of local folklore was not just to recover an
ancient national spirit, but also to carry the moder
nationalist message to large adiences who were mostly
illeterate.
HUNGER, HARDSHIP AND POPULAR REVOLT
The 1830s were the years of great
economic hardship in Europe.
The first half of the 19th century saw
an enormous increase in population all
over Europe. Population from rural
areas migrated to the cities to live in
overcrowded slums.
Small producers in towns were often
faced tough competition from imports
and cheap machine made goods from
England due to their advanced
industrialisation
The Revolution of
Liberals
In 1848, a revolution led by the educated
middle class led to the resignation of the
monarch.
The liberal middle-class families of all
European countries demanded
constitutionalism with national unification
This demand was based on parliamentary
principles like the constitution, freedom of the
press and freedom of association.
May Revolution
On 18th May, 1848 the elected representatives assembled in
the church of St. Paul and drafted a constitution for a
German nation. According to this constitution, the nation was
to be headed by a monarchy which was under the
parliament.
Issue of political rights to women
The Issue of extending political rights to
women was a controversial one within the
liberal movement, in which large number of
women had participated actively over the
years.
Women had formed their own political
associations, founded newspapers and taken
part in political meetings and demonstrations.
But still they were denied the right to vote.
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