HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - German Confederation, Customs Union, Otto Von Bismarck
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Response to napoleon conquest of the german states. Nationalism and anti-semitism: give jews rights is to make them become not jews (not reverts though, doesn"t count) Everyone should become a german to be united as one, but the jews could never do that. French were refined jews hated them. Connections to a modern semitism all about peoplehood, ethnicity and ancestry. Works with liberalism: check on arbitrary power of monarchs, rights to codify constitution, government responsible to people who were sovereign. Liberalism was a twin threat to loyalty to dynasty rather than people being sovereign an determining how they"d be governed. Revolt in belgium nationalist dissatisfaction of dynastic rule. 1848 revolutions: french second republic (1848-1852) Louis phillip was at first liberal but then he nd his government rejected liberalist stands. George washington"s b-day banquet, government tries to calm down people, brawl breaks out people turn against their own government. Take advantage of widespread revolt to make second republic.
