HIST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Body Politic

• School: WPUNJ, WPU
• Department: HIST - History
• Course: HIST 101
• Professor: Evelyn Gonzalez

Document Summary

Nationalism- a shared community whose members should have sovereignty within borders. Nation/nation state- arises from desire for self-government political organization that derives legitimacy from its inhabitants (citizens) who share a common language, culture & common history. Sovereignty- supremacy of authority or rule, especially over a body politic (nation). Civil war (no slavery), manifest destiny, indian removal. Expansion across & exploitation of the continent, industrialization. 1898 war (gains colonies in caribbean & pacific) New nations, new borders, controlled by large land holders producing and exporting crops, excluded native peoples from power. Expansion into interior, exploitation of resources, slavery ended, no democracy. Numerous revolutions & changes of government, gains algerian colony after bloody war, lost 2 provinces to prussia in the 1870-1871 war, consumed with anti-german hatred, anti-semitism, labor strife & loss of prestige. Concerned with labor & social problems (wages, votes & women"s suffrage), irish separatism, and its overseas empire in india, egypt, china.