HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ernest Renan, Italian Nationalism, Giuseppe Mazzini
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A 19th century ideology which held that national" groups bound by language, culture, and other factors formed basic, natural units of socio-political organization and should have their own independent states, so-called nation-states. Invention it"s a completely made up thing. Both agree that the idea of national identity is a modern invention stemming out of the french revolution. Ernst renan: what is a nation: most people thought it was about race, religion, language. February 1848 in paris: a revolution (liberal and nationalist) which kicked the. Revolutions throughout the entire continent very liberal and nationalist: professor called it the revenge of the french revolution , metternich goes into exile. So these revolutions are happening and there"s another republic. Louis-napoleon bonaparte (napoleon"s nephew often referred to as little. Napoleon wins 75% of the vote: decides to bring back the napoleonic dynasty, president louis-napoleon stages a coup and makes himself emperor. The french revolution left a yearning for independence.
