HIST 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ottoman Empire, Giuseppe Mazzini, Machismo
17 Oct 2016
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1860s - big pivot point for nation states. Created the nation states of italy and germany. The coming of nation states in 19th century europe. New nations emerge with breakups of communism and emperors. They emerge by becoming independent of a dominating power (ottoman empire) or by uniting its constituents parts (germany) Italy becomes a nation state in stages. Italy uni ed not through popular republican protests and uprising, but by laws. Before 1860, the efforts to unify italy failed. 1848 - the big one - in rome and venice - the nationalist revolutionaries were successful until local rulers and austria suppressed them in summer 1849. Garibaldi - charismatic, macho, man of action, not intellectual. Camilla benso - count of cavour - the states man, aristocrat. After 1848, revolutions from below blow over, return to status quo. 1859-1860 - cavour volunteers piedmont"s (an italian state) support to french and english. This leads to a war against austria.
