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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Peter Jones’s The 1848 Revolutions is a decent introduction to the events discussed in the lecture.
- Two conventional accounts of the revolution in France and the Second Republic are France and 1848: The End of Monarchy and The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852.
- Matthew Levinger’s Enlightened Nationalism examines Prussian political culture in the period from 1806 (when Prussia was defeated by Napoleon) to 1848.
- Istvan Deak’s Lawful Revolution is one of the few examinations in English of the Hungarian bid for independence from Austria in 1848-1849.
- G.F.-H. Berkeley’s Italy in the Making is a blow-by-blow account of Mazzini’s revolution in 1848.
Revolutions of 1848 – Quiz
- Identify one Great Power that did not experience a revolution in 1848.
- Identify the long-term causes of the revolutions of 1848.
- Identify the major source of tension within France’s Second Republic once it was declared.
- What was the purpose of the Frankfurt Parliament? Did it succeed?
- Identify the factors that led to the failure of the revolutions in each of the Great Powers and Italy.
- Identify at least two lasting results of the revolutions of 1848.
- Britain
- growth of democratic, nationalist, and liberal ideas
- Parisian radicalism vs. rural conservatism
- to create a united state of Germany; no
- France: conservative reaction to Parisian radicals as well as Louis-Napoleon’s rise to power; Austria: Russians help to put down rebels; Germany: Prussian king rejects offer of German crown from the Frankfurt Parliament; Italy: French intervention restores papal authority
- end of serfdom in parts of eastern Europe; democratic government in France; bad blood between middle and lower classes; failure of liberal nationalism