01:506:101 Lecture 13: Ch13
13 Mar 2018
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Chapter 13: the consolidation of the large nation-states, 1859-1871: backgrounds: the idea of the nation state, introduction: pp. 542-546: before 1860, france and britain were the two most prominent nation states. Nationalism has united people into larger units and broken large into smaller: a nation-state is: one in which supreme political authority somehow rests upon and represents the will and feeling of its inhabitants. In summary, they are a community, committed to a collective destiny: nineteenth century governments needed to gain support from their subjects to effectively rule. They typically increased political participation and created or extended liberal and representative institutions. Territorially, they unified pre - existing states --causing wars: the crimean war, 1854-56, the war was one of a long series of russo-turkish wars. Russia took bessarabia in 1829 and coveted wallachia and moldavia (now romania; see map on p. 625). Ostensibly, the cause was russia"s claim to protect christians in the ottoman empire.
