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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Complete text of works discussed in the lecture:
- John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and On Liberty
- Charles Dickens’s Hard Times
- John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and On Liberty
- Charles Dickens’s Hard Times
- The Lion and the Unicorn: Disraeli vs. Gladstone by Richard Aldous
- Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
- Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler
- Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
Politics, 1848-1870 – Quiz
- Explain the key tenets of utilitarianism.
- Identify two major utilitarian thinkers of the 19th century.
- Identify the major trends in British politics, 1848-1870.
- Identify the major features of the reign of Napoleon III.
- Explain the causes and effects of the Ausgleich.
- Identify the major accomplishment of Tsar Alexander II.
- The goal of public policy should be to increase overall social happiness/utility. This implies the repeal of laws that benefit special interests at the expense of the broader society.
- Jeremy Bentham; John Stuart Mill
- Suffrage increases; stability and an avoidance of revolutions
- Industrialization; technocratic management; foreign adventures
- Causes: growth of nationalism and resulting ethnic tensions within the Austrian Empire; Effects: grant of autonomy to Magyars in domestic affairs and a policy of “Magyarization” of other ethnic groups in Magyar-controlled regions
- abolition of serfdom