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CBSE Class 10 Socail Science, Revision Notes, History Chapter- 1, , The Rise of Nationalism in Europe, , 1. In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four print visualizing his, dream of a world made up of 'democratic and social republic, as he called them., 2. Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified Liberty as a female figure., 3. According to Sorrieu's utopian vision, the peoples of the world are grouped as distinct, nations, identifñed through their flags and national costume., , 4 This chapter will deal with many of the issues visualized by Sorrieu., 5. During the nineteenth century, nationalism emerged as a force which brought about, sweeping changes in the political and mental world of Europe., , 6. The end result of these changes was the emergence of the nation-state in the place of the, multi-national dynastic empires of Europe., , 7. Amodern state, in which a centralized power exercised sovereign control over a clearly, defined territory, had been developing over a long period of time in Europe., , 8. But a nation-state was one in which the majority of its citizens, and not only its rulers,, came to develop a sense of common identity and shared history or descent., 9. This chapter will look at the diverse processes through which nation-states and, nationalism came into being in nineteenth-century Europe., , The French Revolution and the idea of the Nation, 1. The first clear expression of nationalism came with the French Revolution in 1789., , 2. The political and constitutional changes that came in the wake of the French Revolution, led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy to a body of French citizens., 3. The ideas of la patrie (the fatherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) emphasized the notion of, , a united community enjoying equal rights under a constitution., 4. The Estates General was elected by the body of the active citizens and renamed the, National Assembly., 5. Internal customs duties and dues were abolished and a uniform system of weights and, , measures was adopted.
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6. The revolutionaries further declared that it was the mission and the destiny of the French, , nation to liberate the peoples of Europe from despotism., 7. Students and other members of educated middle classes began setting up Jacobin club., , campaigns prepared the way for the French armies which, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and much of Italy in the 1790's., , 8. Their activities and, , moved into, , 9. The French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad., 10. Through a return to monarchy Napoleon had, no doubt, destroyed democracy in France,, but in the administrative field he had, , incorporated revolutionary principles in order to, , make the whole system more rational and efficient., 11. The Civil Code of 1804- usually known as the Napoleonic Code- did away with all, , privileges based on birth, established equality before the Law and secured, , the, , right, , to, , property., 12., , and freed, Napoleon simplified administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system, , peasants from serfdom and manorial dues., , 13. Transport and communication systems were improved., 14. Businessmen and small-scale, , producers of goods,, , in, , particular, began to realize that, , uniform laws, standardised weights and measures, and a common national currency, , would facilitate the, , movement, , and, , exchange of goods and capital from, , one, , region, , to, , another., 15. In many, , the, places such as Holland and Switzerland, Brussels, Mainz, Milan, Warsaw,, , French armies were welcomed as harbingers of Liberty., 16. It became clear that the, , new, , administrative arrangements did not go hand in hand with, , political freedom., 17. Increased taxation,, , conquer the rest of the, , Europe,, , conscription into the French armies required, seemed to outweigh the advantages of the, , forced, , censorship,, , all, , to, , administrative changes., The Making of Nationalism in Europe, 1., , Germany, Italy and, , Switzerland, , were, , divided into, , kingdoms,, , duchies and cantons, , whose, , rulers had their autonomous territories., 2., , They did not see themselves as sharing a, , collective, , identity or a, , common, , culture., , 3. The Habsburg Empire ruled over Austria Hungary., 4., , In, , Hungary, half of the population, , spoke Magyar while the other half of the spoke, , a
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variety of dialects., 5. Besides these three dominant, , of the, groups, there also lived within the boundaries, , empire., 6., , The, , only tie binding these diverse groups together was a, , common, , allegiance, , to, , the, , emperor., The Aristocracy and the new middle class, , landed aristocracy was the dominant class on the continent., 2. The members of this class were by a common way of life that cut across regional, 1., , Socially and politically, a, divisions., , 3. Their families were often connected by ties if marriages., 4. This powerful aristocracy was, however, numerically a small group. The growth of towns, , and the emergence of commercial classes whose existence was based on production for, the market., , S. Industrialization began in England in the second half of the eighteenth century, but in, France and parts of the German states it occurred only during the nineteenth century., 6. In its wake, new social groups came into being: a working-class population, and middle, , classes made up of industrialists, businessmen, professional., 7. It was among the educated, liberal middle classes that ideas of national unity following, , the abolition of aristocratie privileges gained popularity., What did Liberal Nationalism Stand for?, , 1. Inearly-nineteenthcentury Europe were closely allied to the ideology of liberalism., 2. The term liberalism' derives from the Latin root liber, meaning free., 3. Liberalism stood for freedom for the individual and equality of all before the law., 4. It emphasized the concept of government by consent., , 5. A constitution and representative government through parliament., 6. The right to vote and to get elected was generated exclusively to property-owning men., , 7. Men without property and all women were excluded from political rights., 8. Women and non-propertied men and women organised opposition movements, , demanding equal political rights., 9. The abolition of state-imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital., 10. A merchant travelling in 1833 from Hamburg to Nuremberg to sell his goods would have
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to pass through 11 customs barriers and pay a customs duty of about 596 at each one of, them., 11. Obstacles to economics exchanges and growth by the new commercial classes, who, , argued for the creation of a, , unified economic, , territory allowing the unhindered, , movement of goods, people and capital., , 12. The union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over, thirty to two., A New Conservation after 1815, , 1. Following the defect of Napoleon in 1815, European governments were driven by a spirit, , of conservatism., 2. Most conservatives, however, did not propose a return to the society of pre-revolutionary, , days., 3. That modernization could in fact strengthen traditional institutions like the monarchy., , 4. Amodern army, an efficient bureaucracy, a dynamic economy, the abolition offeudalism, and serfdom could strengthen the autoeratic monarchies of Furope., 5. In 1815,, , representatives ofthe European powers -Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria, , -, , who had collectively defeated Napoleon, met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for, , Europe., 6. The Bourbon dynasty, which had been deposed during the French Revolution, was, , restored to power, and France lost the territories it had annexed under Napoleon., 7. German confederation of 39 states that has been set up by Napoleon was left untouched., 8. Autocratic did not tolerate criticism and dissent, and sought to curb activities that, questioned the legitimacy of autocratic government., The Revolutionaries, , 1. During the years following 1815, the fear of repression drove many liberal-nationalists, , underground., 2. Revolutionary at this time meant a commitment to oppose monarchical forms and to fight, for liberty and freedom., 3. Giuseppe Mazzini, born in Genoa in 1807, he became a member of the secret society of, , the Carbonari., 4. He was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting a revolution in Liguria.
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5. Mazzini believed that god had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind., 6. Secret societies were set up in Germany, France, Switzerland and Poland., 7. Metternich described him as The most dangerous enemy of our social order'., , The Age of Revolution: 1830 1848, 1. As conservative regimes tried to consolidate their power, liberalism and nationalism, came to be increasingly associated with revolution in many regions of Europe such as the, Italian and German states, the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Ireland and Poland., 2. When the France sneezes', Metternich once remarked, 'the rest of the Europe catches, cold'., 3. An event that mobilized nationalist feelings among the educated elite across Europe was, , the Greek war of independence., 4 Greece had been the part of the Ottoman Empire since the fifteenth century., , 5. Greeks living in exile and also from many west Europeans who had sympathies for, ancient Greek culture., The Romantic Imagination and national Feeling, 1. The development of nationalism did not come about only through wars and territorial, expansions., 2. Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation: art and poetry, stories, , and music helped express and shape nationalist feeling., 3. Let us look at Romanticism, a culture movement which sought to develop a particular, form of nationalist sentiments., 4. Romantic artists and poet generally criticised the glorification of reason and science and, focused instead on emotions, institution and mystical feelings., 5. Other romantics were through folk song, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit, , of the nation., 6. National feelings were kept alive through music and languages., 7. Karol Kurpinski, celebrated the national struggles through his operas and music, turning, , folk dances like the polonaise and mazurka into nationalist symbols., 8. Language too played an important role in developing nationalist sentiments., 9. Russian language was, , imposed everywhere., , 10. Many members of the clergy in Poland began to use language as a weapon of national
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resistance., 11. As, , a, , result,, , a, , large number of priests and bishops, , Russian authorities, , as, , were, , punishment for their refusal, , to, , put in, , jail or sent to Siberia by the, , preach in, , Russians., , Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt, 1. The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe., 2. The first half of the nineteenth century, 3. In, 4., 5., , most countries, , there, , were more, , saw an enormous, , increase in, , population., , seekers of jobs than employment., , to the cities to live in overcrowded slum., Population from rural areas migrated, the population of Paris out, Food shortage and widespread unemployment brought, , on, , the, , roads., 6. National, , Assembly proclaimed a republic, granted suffrage, , and guaranteed the, , to, , all adult males above 21,, , right to work., , 7. Earlier, in 1845, weavers in Silesia had lead a revolt against contractors who supplied, them, , raw, , material and gave them orders for finished textile., , marched in, , their homes and, June at 2 p.m. a large crowd of weavers emerged from, pairs up to the mansion of their contractors demanding higher wages., The contractors fled with his family to a neighbouring village which, however,, , 8. On 4, , 9., , refused to, , shelter such a person., 10. He returned 24 hours later having requisitioned the army., 11. In the, , exchange that followed, eleven weavers were shot., , 1848: The Revolution of the Liberals, 1. The poor, unemployment and starving peasants and workers in many European, countries in the years 1848, a revolution led by the educated middle classes was under, way., , 2. Men and women of the liberal middle classes combined their demands for, constitutionalism with national unification., 3. They drafted a constitution for a German nation to be headed by a monarchy subject to a, , parliament., 4. Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, rejected it and joined other monarchs to oppose the elected, , assembly., 5. While the opposition of the aristocracy and military became stronger, the social basis of
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parliament eroded., , 6. The issue of extending political rights to women was a controversial one within the, , liberal movement., 7. Women had formed their own political associations, founded newspaper and taken part, , in political meeting and demonstrations., 8. Women were admitted only as observers to stand in the visitors' gallery., 9. Monarchs were beginning to realize that the cycles if revolution and repression could be, , ended by granting concessions to the liberal-nationalist revolutionaries., The Making of German and Italy, , Germany, , can, , the, , Army be the, , Architect of a National, , 1. After 1848, nationalism in Europe moved away from its association with democracy and, revolution., , 2. This can be observed in the process by which Germany and Italy came to be unified as, , nation-states., 3. Nationalist feelings were widespread among middle-class Germans., , 4. This liberal initiative to nation-building was, however, repressed by the combined forces, of the monarchy and the military, supported by the large landowners of Prussia., 5. Prussia took, , on, , the, , leadership of the movement., , 6. Three wars overseen years-with Austria, Denmark, and France-ended in Prussian victory, and completed the process of unification., 7. The nation-building process in Germany had demonstrated the dominance of Prussian, state power., 8. The, , new state, , and, placed a strong emphasis on modernising the currency, banking, legal, , judicial systems in Germany., Italy Unified, , 1. Like Germany, Italy too had a long history of political fragmentation., 2. Italians, , were, , scattered, , over, , several, , dynastic, , states as well, , as, , the multi-national, , Habsburg Empire., 3. Italy was divided into seven states., , 4. Italian, , language had, , not, , and, acquired one common form and still had many regional
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local variations., 5. Giuseppe Mazzini had sought to put together a coherent programme for a unitary Italian, , Republic., 6. Young Italy for the dissemination of his goals., 7. The failure of revolutionary uprising both in 1831 and 1848 meant that the mantle now, , fell on Sadinia-Piedmont under its ruler King Victor Emmanuel II to unify the Italian, states through war., , 8. Italy offered them the possibility of economic development and political dominance., 9. Italy was neither a revolutionary nor a democrat., 10. Italian population, among whom rates of illiteracy were high, remained blissfully, , unaware of liberal-nationalist ideology., The strange case of Britain, 1. The model of the nation or the nation-state, some scholars have argued, is Great Britain., 2. It was the result of a long-drawn-out process., 3. There was no British nation prior to the eighteenth century., 4. United Kingdom of great Britain' meant, in effect, that England was able to impose its, influence on Scotland., , 5. The British parliament was henceforth dominated by its English members., 6. Ireland was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801., 7. British lag, the national anthem, the English language - were actively promoted and the, , older nations survived only as subordinate partners on this union., , Visualising the Nation, 1. While it was easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a statue., , 2. In other words they represented a country as if it were a person., 3. Nations were then portrayed as a female figure., 4. The female figures became an allegory of the nation., 5. Christened Marianne, a popular Christian name, which underlined the idea of people's, nation., , Nationalism and Imperialism, 1. By the quarter of the nineteenth century nationalism no longer retained its idealistic
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iberal-democratic sentiment of the first half of the century, but became a, , narrow, , creed, , with limited ends., 2. The most serious source of nationalists tension in, , Europe after 1871 was the area called, , the Balkans., 3. The Balkans was a region of geographical and ethnic variation., , 4. One by one its European subjects nationalities broke away from its control and declared, , independence., 5. The Balkan area became an era of intense conflict., 6. The Balkan states were jealous of each other and each hoped to gain more territory at the, expense of each other., 7. But the idea that societies should be organized into "nation-states' came to be accepted as, natural and universal.
