HIS102Y1 Lecture 15: HIS311 Lecture 15 - Bothwell
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Queen victoria on throne for 64 years most canadians had not lived under any other monarch. The royal families of europe were inter-linked: queen victoria"s uncle was a german monarch, etc. Her grandson was the german emperor wilhelm ii. This seems like it would be a bulwark against war. Prussia and its neighbors, ending in the defeat of france and the establishment of the german empire; there had been wars in the balkans, etc; but no all encompassing war. The establishment of the german empire germany was pulled together under one government/one monarch. Germany in the late 19th century had a representative government where wilhelm ii had to listen to german opinion: not a democracy/not a dictatorship. Demography: france was at one point the largest country in europe (napoleon"s success) towards the end of the 19th century, the french population stalls. German empire is equal to france in population.
