HIST104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Taiping Rebellion, Utopian Socialism, French Revolution
6 Jul 2017
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Tenskatawa, taiping rebellion: religion vision also known as millenarian. Marxist socialism: they believed that a perfect state could be created. Social and political crisis: 20 million people died due to the taiping rebellion. Socialist and radicals in europe: europe and north america core areas of economic growth, challenges to main currents of thoughts and activities included. Radicals, liberals, utopian socialist, nationalist, abolitionist and religious mavericks. Reactionaries wanted to return to world force before the french revolution. Liberal accepted the french revolution"s overthrow of aristocratic privilege. Radical visions: radicals envisioned total reconfiguration of the old regime"s state system, radicals threat of return of revolution ultimately reconciled liberals and reactionaries to preserving state quo, nationalist. Nationalism important to liberal and radicals but threatened conservatives. Idea od popular sovereignty spread with the people generally defined as those who shared a common language, culture and history. Which people counted and who decided caused conflict amongst nationalist.
