ANTH 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Italian Unification, Mass Politics, Political Question
9 Oct 2014
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Late state and nation formation: germany and italy. Italy and germany emerge through a process of unification in late. 19th century europe, in a system of states already in place. Late state and nation formation means: late economic development and late industrialization, which has consequences for relations between states and the industrial economy and for state-economic elite relations. Both germany and italy see the emergence of political exchanges between the industrial elites and large landowners in agriculture that have consequences for economic policies such as tariffs: mass politics. These states form after the beginning of the extension of the suffrage to working classes. Working class political mobilization will put pressures on states in the critical early period of state formation and consolidation: geopolitical competition. These new states enter into a competitive interstate system and they have to catch up to compete: the ideal of the nation-state.
