HIS 2341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Code Of Law, Romantic Nationalism, Centralisation
13 Sep 2016
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Reorganized the state of france along rational lines: reinforced state centralism, state = governmental apparatus. Revolution gives rise to questions of nationalism: sovereignty of the people, people = key to the state"s authority and its structure. Rise of enfranchisement: people brought into political process, political mobilisation of the masses. Set of counter movements set across europe: countering the enlightenment and french revolution. Rebalancing of the church and the state: contest for power/supremacy. Canonisation of revolution/radicalism: french revolution = template for how to undertake change. Consequence of the fact that there are flows" to revolution. Spontaneous change: radically alters how the next two centuries will develop. Born in corsica controlled by france at time: 1769 = when france came to control it/when napoleon was born. Napoleon = of noble italian stock: father = attorney, italian speaking in his youth, sent to france as a young man and studied in a military academy and learned french.
