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- The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign by Harold Smith
- Separate Spheres: The Opposition to Women’s Suffrage in Britain by Brian Howard Harrison
- Roughly the first half of William Fortescue’s The Third Republic in France deals with the period under consideration in this lecture.
- Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918 by Matthew Jefferies
- Kaiser Wilhelm II by Christopher Clark
- Two helpful works on Viennese culture in the period 1870-1914 are Carl Schorske’s Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture and Robert Weldon Whalen’s Sacred Spring.
- The Revolution of 1905: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
Politics, 1870-1914 – Quiz
- Explain the significance of the Parliament Act of 1911 and how the House of Commons managed to secure its passage.
- Identify three scandals that plagued the early years of the Third Republic in France.
- Explain the significance and outcome of Germany’s kulturkampf.
- Identify two working-class political parties that began to achieve success in the late 19th century.
- _____________ was the city that could most plausibly claim to be the cultural capital of Europe in 1900.
- Identify the two Russian tsars discussed in this lecture.
- It ended the effective power of the House of Lords. The Commons worked with King George V to threaten “dilution” of the Lords if it didn’t pass the bill.
- Boulanger Affair, Panama Affair, Dreyfus Affair
- Pitted Protestants against Roman Catholics in Germany. Germany’s Catholics united into a political block for the first time in self-defense.
- Social Democrats in Germany. Labour in Britain
- Vienna
- Alexander III, Nicholas II