HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Secret Police, Karl August Von Hardenberg, Klemens Von Metternich
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The habsburg possessions ruled directly by the habsburg dynasty, which often produces the holy. Roman emperor (rules within empire & outside of it) Holy roman emperor francis ii dissolves holy roman empire in wake of reorganization of germany, renames habsburg possessions the austrian empire, becomes francis i, emperor of austria in 1804. Confederation of the rhine: beside the new austrian empire. Napoleon set that up, loose group of german states excluding austria & prussia. Union expanded to include almost every state in germany except for austria & prussia. Fr. revolutionaries & napoleon thought they were fighting for liberation, the idea of the nation/people as sovereign. People began looking into folk tales in germany spread out across all the states, cultural & political institutions to reflect idea of nationality, philosophers began referring to the german states as a whole. Modern idea of nationalism, nation as the source of loyalty & belonging, as the category entitled to institutions of gov"t.
