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- 6. SYMBOLS OF COLLECTIVEIDENTITY: LA PATRIE (THE FATHERLAND) LE CITOYEN (THE CITIZEN) THE FRENCH TRICOLOUR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HYMNS, OATHS & COMMEMORATION OF MARTYRS CENTRALISED ADMINISTRATION & UNIFORM LAWS ABOLITION OF INTERNAL DUTIES & DUES UNIFORM SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES USE OF PARISIAN FRENCH
- 7. FRENCH IMPACT ONEUROPE MISSION TO LIBERATE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FROM DESPOTISM. STUDENTS SET UP JACOBIN CLUBS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. THESE CLUBS HELP THE FRENCH INVASION OF THEIR COUNTRIES.
- 8. THE NAPOLEONIC CODE RETURN OF MONARCHY. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS. REMOVAL OF PRIVILEGES BASED ON BIRTH. EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW & RIGHT TO PROPERTY. ABOLISHED FEUDAL SYSTEMS BY FREEING PEASANTS FROM SERFDOM & MANORIAL DUES. REMOVAL OF GUILD RESTRICTIONS IN TOWNS. IMPROVEMENT IN TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATION. UNIFORM LAWS, WEIGHTS & MEASURES AND NATIONAL CURRENCY.
- 9. RESENTMENT AGAINST FRANCE& NAPOLEON LOSS OF POLITICAL FREEDOM. INCREASED TAXES. CENSORSHIP OF NEWS & VIEWS. FORCED CONSCRIPTION INTO FRENCH ARMY TO FIGHT WARS.
- 10. EUROPEAN SOCIETY THE UPPERCLASS: • THE LANDED ARISTOCRACY WERE THE DOMINANT GROUP. • THEY HAD COMMON INTERESTS AND LIFESTYLE. • OWNED LARGE COUNTRY ESTATES AND TOWN HOUSES. • CONNECTED BY MARRIAGE TIES. • MOST OF THEM SPOKE FRENCH. THE LOWER CLASS: • MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WERE PEASANTS. • MOST WERE LANDLESS AND WORKED AS SERFS.
- 11. THE ARISTOCRAT THEPEASANT
- 12. IMPACT OF THEINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION : RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS • GROWTH OF CITIES AND TOWNS. • EMERGENCE OF COMMERCIAL CLASSES. • RISE OF MIDDLE CLASS CONSISTING OF INDUSTRIALISTS, BUSINESSMEN AND PROFESSIONALS. • THEY WERE EDUCATED AND LIBERAL MINDED. • THEY WANTED THE REMOVAL OF ARISTOCRATIC PRIVILEGES
- 13. GROWTH OF URBANMIDDLE CLASS
- 14. LIBERAL NATIONALISM SOCIAL LIBERALISM: •END OF AUTOCRACY AND CLERICAL PRIVILEGES. • FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND EQUALITY BEFORE LAW. •FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. POLITICAL LIBERALISM: • GOVT BY CONSENT, CONSTITUTION & REPRESENTATIVE PARLIAMENT. • INVIOLABILITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. • UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE (WOMEN & NON-PROPERTIED MEN). ECONOMIC LIBERALISM: • FREEDOM OF MARKETS, ABOLITION OF RESTRICTION OF MOVEMENT OF GOODS. • UNIFORM DUTIES, WEIGHTS& MEASURES.
- 15. ZOLLVEREIN • DEMAND FORA UNIFIED ECONOMIC TERRITORY ALLOWING THE UNHINDERED MOVEMENT OF GOODS, PEOPLE AND CAPITAL BY THE MIDDLE CLASS. • IN 1834 A CUSTOMS UNION CALLED ZOLLVEREIN WAS FORMED BY PRUSSIA AND JOINED BY OTHER GERMAN STATES. • TARRIF BARRIERS WERE ABOLISHED. • CURRENCIES REDUCED FROM 30 TO ONLY 2. • CREATION OF RAILWAY NETWORK TO IMPROVE AND UNITE THE ZOLLVEREIN
- 16. CONSERVATISM AFTER 1815 •THEY BELIEVED THAT THE MONARCHY, CHURCH, ARISTOCRACY, SOCIAL HIERARCHIES, PROPERTY AND FAMILY SHOULD BE PRESERVED. • WANTED TO PRESERVE NAPOLEON’S ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS. • IN 1815 ENGLAND, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA SIGNED THE TREATY OF VIENNA, UNDOING THE CHANGES MADE BY NAPOLEON. • BUFFER STATES WERE SET UP ON THE BOUNDARIES OF FRANCE TO PREVENT FUTURE EXPANSION. • TRIED TO RESTORE MONARCHIES THAT HAD BEEN OVERTHROWN BY NAPOLEON.
- 18. CHANGES BROUGHT BYCONSERVATISM • RETURN OF AUTOCRATIC REGIMES. • DID NOT TOLERATE DISSENT OR CRITICISM. • CENSORSHIP LAWS BROUGHT IN TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF LIBERAL IDEAS.
- 19. THE REVOLUTIONARIES •RETURN OFMONARCHIES DROVE MANY LIBERAL NATIONALISTS UNDERGROUND. • SECRET SOCIETIES WERE FORMED. • THEIR AIM WAS TO FIGHT FOR LIBERTY & EQUALITY. • WANTED TO ESTABLISH NATION- STATES.
- 20. GIUSEPPE MAZZINI: • HEWAS AN ITALIAN REVOLUTIONARY. • MEMBER OF CARBONARY,FOUNDER OF YOUNG ITALY AND YOUNG EUROPE. • BELIEVED THAT GOD INTENDED NATIONS TO BE THE NATURAL UNITS OF MANKIND. • DESCRIBED AS ‘THE MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY OF THE CONSERVATIVE SOCIAL ORDER.’
- 21. THE AGE OFREVOLUTIONS: 1830-1848 • RETURN OF CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY IN FRANCE IN 1830 UNDER LOUIS PHILIPPE FOLLOWING THE JULY REVOLUTION. • END OF CONSERVATIVE DOMINANCE AND RESURGENCE OF LIBERAL NATIONALISM. • SOON, FOLLOWING THE SAME REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES, BELGIUM FOUGHT FOR AND GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM NETHERLANDS. • AN IMPORTANT EVENT WAS THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN GREECE, THEN A PART OF THE TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE. • THE GREEK REVOLUTION BEGAN IN 1821 WITH SUPPORT FROM EXILED GREEKS, WEST EUROPEAN NATIONS AND OTHER GROUPS. • IN 1832, GREECE GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE AFTER SIGNING THE TREATY OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- 22. ROMANTICISM AND NATIONALISM •EMPHASIS ON COMMON CULTURE, LANGUAGE, COLLECTIVE HERITAGE AND EMOTIONAL APPEAL. • CRITISISED THE IMPORTANCE GIVEN TO REASON AND SCIENCE. MAJOR MOVEMENTS IN GERMANY: • JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER GAVE THE IDEAS OF DAS VOLK AND VOLKGEIST. • THE GRIMM BROTHERS: COLLECTED GERMAN FOLK TALES. • POLISH MOVEMENT: KEPT ALIVE POLISH NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS THROUGH ETHNIC LANGUAGE, MUSIC, POETRY AND FOLK DANCES WHILE UNDER RUSSIAN RULE.
- 23. The Polish polonaise ThePolish mazurka The Grimm brothers Gottfried Herder
- 24. HUNGER, HARDSHIP &POPULAR REVOLT INCREASING ECONOMIC HARDSHIP DURING THE 1830s. WIDESPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN CONGESTION, COMPETITION FROM MACHINE MADE GOODS FROM ENGLAND, FEUDAL DUES, RISING FOOD PRICES, FAILED CROPS. POLPULAR REVOLT IN FRANCE IN 1848 RESULTED IN LOUIS PHILIPPE FLEEING, FRANCE DECLARED A REPUBLIC WITH VOTING FOR ALL MEN ABOVE 21 AND NATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR MORE EMPLOYMENT. IN SELISIA IN 1845 WEAVERS LED A REVOLT AGAINST THE CONTRACTER WHO WAS CHEATING THEM. THEY SURROUNDED HIS HOUSE AND DEMANDED HIGHER WAGES. GETTING ONLY THREATS FROM HIM THEY ATTACKED HIS HOUSE, DESTROYED HIS GOODS.
- 25. THE REVOLT INSELESIA 1845
- 26. LIBERAL REVOLUTION INGERMANY INSPIRED BY THE EVENTS OF FEB 1848 IN FRANCE, LIBERAL REVOLUTIONARIES CONSISTING OF MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS AND MERCHANTS SET UP A GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. IN MAY 1848, A GROUP OF 831 ELECTED REPS, MET TOGETHER AND DECIDED ON A SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY. KING FRIEDRICH WILHEM IV OF PRUSSIA REJECTED THEIR OFFER. THE LOWER PEASANT CLASS TOO PROTESTED AT THE LACK OF REPRESENTATION. THIS LED TO A WEAKENING OF THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT AND THE DISBANDING OF THE ASSEMBLY.
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- 28. UNIFICATION OF GERMANY IN MAY 1848 THE LIBERAL ATTEMPT TO SET UP A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AT FRANKFURT WAS SUPPRESSED BY THE MONARCHY, MILITARY AND JUNKERS. AFTER THE FAILURE OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, PRUSSIAN CHIEF MINISTER OTTO VON BISMARCK TAKES THE LEAD IN GERMAN UNIFICATION. HE PLANNED THE UNIFICATION WITH THE HELP OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AND BUREAUCRACY. HE CONDUCTED 3 WARS WITH FRANCE, AUSTRIA AND DENMARK OVER 7 YEARS, THUS ENSURING GERMAN UNIFICATION. THE PROCESS WAS COMPLETED WITH THE CROWNING OF KAISER WILLIAM I AS KING OF GERMANY.
- 29. OTTO VON BISMARCK UNIFIEDGERMANY IN 1871
- 30. UNIFICATION OF ITALY ITALYWAS DIVIDED INTO 7 STATES OF WHICH ONLY ONE, SARDINIA- PIEDMONT WAS RULED BY AN ITALIAN DYNASTY. IDEAS OF ITALIAN UNIFICATION FIRST GIVEN BY GUISEPPE MAZZINI THROUGH HIS SECRET SOCIETY CALLED YOUNG ITALY. AFTER HIS FAILED REVOLUTIONS IN 1831 AND 1848, THE LEAD WAS TAKEN BY THE KING OF SARDINIA, VICTOR EMMANUEL II. CHIEF MINISTER OF SARDINIA, COUNT CAVOUR LED THE UNIFICATION PROCESS BY DIPLOMATIC ALLIACE WITH FRANCE TO DEFEAT AUSTRIA AND UNIFY ITS NORTHERN TERRITORIES. IN THE SOUTHERN PART, GUISEPPE GARIBALDI LED THE MOVEMENT BY INVOLVING LOCAL PEASANT SUPPORT TO DRIVE OUT THE SPANISH RULERS. THUS THE PROCESS OF UNIFICATION AS COMPLETED WITH THE CROWNING OF VICTOR EMMANUEL II AS KING OF ITALY IN 1861.
- 31. MAZZINI VICTOR EMMANUEL II COUNTCAVOUR GARIBALDI
- 32. UNIFICATION OF GREATBRITAIN UNLIKE OTHE EUROPEAN UNIFICATIONS, THIS WAS NOT THE RESULT OF A NATIONALIST REVOLT. BRITISH ISLES CONSISTED OF FOUR MAIN ETHNIC REGIONS: ENGLISH, WELSH, SCOTTISH AND IRISH. THE DECISION FOR UNIFICATION WAS TAKEN BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. IN 1707, THROUGH AN ACT OF UNION, ENGLAND TOOK CONTROL OF SCOTLAND, COMPLETELY SUBJUGATING THEIR IDENTITY. IN 1801, THROUGH ANOTHER ACT OF UNION, IRELAND TOO WAS MADE A PART OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. THERE WAS A GREAT EFFORT TO IMPOSE THE SYMBOLS OF BRITISH CULTURE OVER SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.
- 34. NATIONALISM IN THEBALKANS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS A DOMINANT MUSLIM REGIME RULING OVER PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE. THE SPREAD OF NATIONALIST REVOLUTIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND INSPIRED BY ROMANTIC NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS, THE ETHNIC CONSTITUENTS OF THE BALKANS DEMANDED LIBERTY. THEY BASED THEIR CLAIMS ON THEIR DISTINCT NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO EARLIER STATE OF INDEPENDENCE. AS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WEAKENED, THE VARIOUS NATIONS BROKE FREE.