Modern Western Civilization Lecture 9

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Modern Western CivilizationLecture 9

• Politics and Nationalism
• 1848-1914

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Themes

• Conservative Governments used Nationalism to stop
  revolutionary fervor.
• Nationalism was supposed to be a unifying force,
  but in some countries it was a disintegrating
  force.

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Louis NapoleonNapoleon III
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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Victor Emmanuel II
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Count Cavour
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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William I
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Otto von Bismarck
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

• What was Chamberlains background? What was the
  subject of Foundations of the Nineteenth Century?
• According to Chamberlain, how did the
  consciousness of race raise the hopes of the
  individual?
• According to Chamberlain, what caused some races
  to advance? What caused the downfall of other
  races?
• What did he mean by the term Teutonism?

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Hermann Ahlwardt

• When and where did Ahlwardt give this speech?
• According to Ahlwardt, why were the Jews
  dangerous?
• How did he define Jews?
• What characteristics did he assign to the Jews?
• In what ways did he try to differentiate German
  Jews and German citizens?

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Alexander II /Alexander III
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The Russian Hero in the EastThe Hero and the
Yellow Pygmies
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Bloody Sunday
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German Political Factions1871-1914

• National Liberal Party
• Catholic Central Party (Kulturkampf)
• Conservative Party
• Social Democratic Party

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Wilhelm II
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Paris Commune
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus