HIST 1003 Chapter 19: Chapter 19 Highlights
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Governments developed new police forces and bureaucracies to watch over uneasy populations, and conservative clerics helped suppress dangerous ideas. But especially in northwestern europe, the economic and political power of the old aristocracies was ebbing away; social mobility, industrial commerce, urbanization, and the development of bureaucracies ate away at the privileges and lifestyles of the old elite. Liberalism triumphant: by the later 1850s, liberalism was making a comeback as many of eu(cid:396)ope"s (cid:373)o(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:272)hs de(cid:272)ided the(cid:455) (cid:272)ould not resurrect a system build on aristocratic privileges and fragmented economic power. The savvy ones among them realized that to survive they would have to build strong, centralized states and accept economic modernization in some form. Railroads, telegraphs, and the popular press were there to stay. So too was the idea of the nation-state. Wily and opportunistic leaders such as napoleon iii, camillo di.
