HIS241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meritocracy, Alexis De Tocqueville, Citizen King
Document Summary
Midterm will cover topics from napoleon to the revolutions of 1848. Id part: names, places, movements - access the importance, significance, consequences. Essay-type: major issues, access significance - have an introduction, thesis, prove your points by arguments, bring in as much evidence as possible. The springtime of peoples & the year of barricades. Nationalism and liberalism became mainstream ideologies of the middle class, undermining the stability of the continent in social, political, and economic terms. Late february 1848 - a spring of revolutions occurred in europe that covered the entire continent. Nearly all central european states went through upheavals. Notably, during the first revolutionary wave of 1820s, the periphery of the continent was affected (spain, russia, None of these places had any political representation, no liberalism. Also, industrialization was having its worst effects around this time: low standard of living, famine, unemployment. In britain, belgium, sweden - timely reforms saved the states from upheavals.
