HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Golden Ambrosian Republic, Habsburg Monarchy, German Confederation
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Premise that some nations are better than others. Transmitted by french soldiers: popular sovereignty etc. Principles of europe before: ability to rule consequences the power to rule. Napoleonic period: reinforced nation self realization. French army established republics: ambrosian republic. French seen as liberators but began to be resented: small republics believed they should be responsible for their own leader. End of napoleonic rule change some things not others: vienna conference did not deal with national self realization etc. National self awareness not there in 1850. Prussia emerged from napoleonic wars as more powerful than wehen it went in. German confederation: germanylarger than independent german states began in imaginations, germans encouraged to unite german states. National movements began to merge with liberalism: liberalism urban, national libery element of liberty, liberalism as a revolutionary element, some of same representations, paris 1848 overthrow louis philipe. Created a spark for others who wanted fundamental change.
