HISTORY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Guerrilla Warfare, French Second Republic, Giuseppe Mazzini
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The revolutions of 1848 matter because: crucial chapter in europe"s long struggle for democracy. Gov"t by the people especially a system of gov"t of in which the people of a state or polity are involved in making decisions about its affairs: second french republic. President was elected: revolutionaries were arrested in huge numbers and punished, france: louis- napoleon bonaparte. Declares a state of siege in france as a whole. 1852- declares himself emperor: starts a conversation about democracy that is hard to ignore. A system characterized by freedom of speech, conscience, assembly, association, and the press; freedom from arbitrary arrest without a trial. A system of decision-making in which all members have the right to take part or vote: nationalism and the ideal of the nation- state. Writing around the time of the french revolution. Likes the idea of nation and nationalism and thinks it should be brought to the loose confederation of states.