HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour, Carbonari, Autocracy
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This idea of progress, a freer, wealthier, more efficient state. If we"re looking at the hapsburg lands and germany and italy, we can"t talk about liberalism without talking about nationalism. Nationalism trumped liberalism, although they worked together in some ways. Often, nationalists were also liberals, but not necessarily. Nationalism was rising in europe since at least the years of the french revolution. The belief that they all had not only the right, but almost a divine obligation to live together as a nation-state. Nationalism has been called the greatest religion of the 19th century. it"s like a religion. Revolutionary forces led to a new kind of experiment. Florence lost her hapsburg overlord and became a republic once again. Even after napoleon tried to make his family the rulers of europe, and that the belief in. Bonaparte meant you have to rule, the division of older states into nationally-based organization were kept, even if ruled by a part of napoleon"s family.
