HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - The The, Wage War, Italian Unification
Document Summary
Napoleon iii and the wars of italian unification. Notes: for all of bismarck"s assessment of napoleon iii, there was no doubt that napoleon iii knew what was wrong in the structure the european body politics. He knew there was some profound inadequacy in the structure of international power in central europe: he knew that the time had come, and that was the idea of central european nationalism. Like it or not, one could not ignore the fact that the growing pressure, especially inside the educated elite inside germany and. Italy were uniformly pushing for some form of national state. Some form of greater political unification amongst german and italian state. It was the post-crimean war discussions with the powers that napoleon saw as the unsatisfactory condition of international relations amongst the german and italian people. It was obviously unstable and was fragmented in number of state. And dominated by austria, it was not a tenable situation.
