[Age of Nationalism]
Before class
* Read Palmer, 503-507, 509-535, 574-580, 584-590
* Key terms
Risorgimento limited liability
Camillo di Cavour Paris Commune
Piedmont Third Republic
Otto von Bismarck Dreyfus Affair
Austro-Prussian War Francis Joseph
Franco-Prussian War Ausgleich
German Empire Compromise of 1867
Kulturkampf intelligentsia
Social Democratic Party Westernizers
William II Slavophils
Second French Empire Act of Emancipation
Credit Mobilier People’s Will
* Key questions
1. "The idea of the nation-state has served both to bring people together into larger units and
to break them apart into smaller ones." Comment on the validity of this statement in light
of the experience of nineteenth-century Europe.
2. Explain the background and nature of the movement for national unification in Italy by
comparing and contrasting the views of and roles played by Mazzini, Cavour and
Garibaldi.
3. Describe Bismarck's political outlook. Explain the nature and outcome of his dispute
with the liberals in the Prussian parliament. What was the meaning of his "blood and
iron" statement?
4. What provisions of the new German Empire's constitution were democratic? Which
provisions were neither liberal nor democratic?
5. Describe French political life and economic growth under Napoleon III.
6. With what major problems was the Third Republic occupied in the years 1871 to 1914?
How successfully did it cope with them?
7. What were the chief problems confronting the Hapsburg empire in the nineteenth
century? What did the wars it had recently fought demonstrate about the empire?
8. Evaluate the Compromise of 1867 as a solution to the nationalities problem in the
Hapsburg empire. Which groups were the chief beneficiaries?
9. How did autocracy in Russia differ from absolutism in the West?
10. Explain the role of the "intelligentsia" in Russian life.
* Key concepts: nation-state, democratization
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