HIS103Y1 Lecture 1: LECTURE 26
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Palmerston we have no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual and it is our interests we vow to follow. i. e. what should drive british policy is british interests. so the allies change with interests in mind. In france, rev. failed to change the map. A new emperor is also there. the idea of nationalism more than liberalism shapes the 1900"s. what did nap. Profound domestic changes- industrial rev. he also changed paris to what we see it today. His ultimate goal was to restore prestige in france. To make france the greatest power in europe. And subsidiary and connected was to break the holy alliance and reintroduce policies of 1815. But france has lived with post 1815 order for 30 years now. France and it limited and possibility of french expansion in europe. Nap was also convinced that stability in europe won"t be there till national goals were achieved.
