The Rise of Nationalism in Europe 1655374808006

Class 10th - History - The Rise of Nationalism in Europe - Full Chapter Explanation
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics - The Pact

Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848
The dream of worldwide democratic and social republics
● The first print of the series, shows the peoples of Europe and America -
men and women of all ages and social classes - marching in a long train,
and offering homage to the statue of Liberty as they pass by it.
● She bears a torch in one hand and charter of the rights of man in the
other.
● On the earth in the foreground of the image lie the shattered remains of
the symbols of absolutist institutions.
Sorrieu’s Utopian Vision
● The peoples of the world are grouped as distinct nations, identified through their flags and
national costume.
● Leading the procession, way past the statue of Liberty, are the United States and
Switzerland, which by this time were already nation-states.
● France, identifiable by the revolutionary tricolour, has just reached the statue.
● She is followed by the peoples of Germany, bearing the black, red and gold flag.
● Following the German peoples are the peoples of Austria, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies,
Lombardy, Poland, England, Ireland, Hungary and Russia.
● From the heavens above, Christ, saints and angels gaze upon the scene.
Symbolise fraternity among the nations of the world.

Connect with the theme of the chapter
The Rise of Nationalism Brought about sweeping changes in the political and mental
world of Europe.
Emergence of nation state in place of the multinational dynastic empire of Europe.
Modern State Nation State
The majority of its citizens, and not only its rulers, came to develop a sense of
common identity and shared history or descent.
Was it so easy?
Nation State Created a sense of collective identity.
● This commonness did not exist from time immemorial.

● It was forged through struggles, through the actions of leaders and the common people.
Theme of the chapter
The diverse processes through which nation-states and

nationalism came into being in nineteenth-century Europe.
What we are going to study in this chapter?
■ The French revolution and the idea of Nation
■ The making of nationalism in Europe

➢ The Aristocracy and the new middle class
➢ What did liberal nationalism stand for?
➢ A new conservatism after 1815
➢ The revolutionaries
■ The age of revolutions - (1830 - 1848)

➢ The romantic imagination and national feeling
➢ Hunger, Hardship, popular revolt
➢ 1848 - The revolution of the liberals
What we are going to study in this chapter?
■ The making of Germany and Italy

➢ Germany - Can the Army be the architect
of a nation
➢ Italy unified
➢ The strange case of Britain
■ Visualising the nation
■ Nationalism and imperialism

The French Revolution and the Idea of Nation
➔ The first clear expression of nationalism French Revolution in 1789
How?
The French revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty.
Monarchy Body of French citizens

French Revolution in 1789 Shift of power
But how the sense of collective identity amongst the French people was created?
● The ideas of la patrie (the fatherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) emphasised the notion of a united
community enjoying equal rights under a constitution.
● A new French flag, the tricolour, was chosen to replace the former royal standard.
● The Estates General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the National Assembly.
● New hymns were composed, oaths taken and martyrs commemorated, all in the name of the
nation.
● A centralised administrative system was put in place and it formulated uniform laws for all citizens
within its territory.
● Internal customs duties and dues were abolished and a uniform system of weights and measures
was adopted.
● Regional dialects were discouraged and French, as it was spoken and written in Paris, became the
common language of the nation.
Objective of French Revolution
The revolutionaries further declared that it was the mission

and the destiny of the French nation to liberate the peoples
of Europe from despotism.
Help other peoples of Europe to become nations.

French Revolution Europe
● Jacobic clubs
● French armies which moved into Holland, Belgium,

Switzerland and much of Italy in the 1790s.
● Outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies

began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.
Napoleon and his role
Napoleon
Napoleon France Europe
● Napoleon set about introducing many of the reforms that

he had already introduced in France.
● 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.
Civil code of 1804 Napoleon

Civil code of 1804
Usually known as napoleonic code.
● Did away with all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law and secured
the right to property.
● Napoleon simplified administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed
peasants from serfdom and manorial dues.
● In the towns too, guild restrictions were removed.
● Transport and communication systems were improved.
● Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen enjoyed a new-found freedom.
Outcome
The reactions of the local populations to French rule were mixed.
Explain
● Initially, in many places such as Holland and Switzerland, as well as in certain cities like
Brussels, Mainz, Milan and Warsaw, the French armies were welcomed as harbingers of
liberty.
● But the initial enthusiasm soon turned to hostility, as it became clear that the new
administrative arrangements did not go hand in hand with political freedom.
Increased taxation, censorship, forced conscription into the

How?
French armies required to conquer the rest of Europe, all seemed
to outweigh the advantages of the administrative changes.
The Making of Nationalism in Europe
Making of nationalism No nationalism
No nation states
Explain
What we know today as Germany, Italy and Switzerland

were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose
rulers had their autonomous territories.
The example of Habsburg Empire
● Ruled over Austria-Hungary, for example, was a patchwork of many different regions
and peoples.
● It included the Alpine regions - the Tyrol, Austria and the Sudetenland - as well as
Bohemia, where the aristocracy was predominantly German-speaking.
● It also included the Italian-speaking provinces of Lombardy and Venetia.
● In Hungary, half of the population spoke Magyar while the other half spoke a variety
of dialects.
● In Galicia, the aristocracy spoke Polish.
● Besides these three dominant groups, there also lived within the boundaries of the
empire, a mass of subject peasant peoples.
The Aristocracy and The New Middle Class
Aristocracy New middle class

Rich landed aristocracy Socially and politically a dominant class on the continent.
Aristocratic class
● United by a common way of life that cut across regional divisions.

● They owned estates in the countryside and also townhouses.
● They spoke French for purposes of diplomacy and in high society.
● Their families were often connected by ties of marriage.
● This powerful aristocracy was, however, numerically a small group.
Then who were in majority?

The majority of the population was made up of the peasantry.
➢ To the west, the bulk of the land was farmed by tenants

and small owners.
➢ While in Eastern and Central Europe the pattern of
landholding was characterised by vast estates which
were cultivated by serfs.
New middle class
The growth of towns and the emergence of

Industrial revolution commercial classes whose existence was based
on production for the market.
Outcome
Emergence of a working-class population, and middle classes made up

of industrialists, businessmen, professionals.
It was among the educated, liberal middle classes that ideas of national unity following the
abolition of aristocratic privileges gained popularity.
Where did the new middle class emerged?

What did Liberal Nationalism Stand for?
Liberal + Nationalism
Ideas of national unity in early-nineteenth-century Europe were

closely allied to the ideology of liberalism.
For the new middle classes liberalism stood

Liber It means ‘free’ in latin. for freedom for the individual and equality
of all before the law.
Liberalism
Political Economic
Liberalism in Political Sphere
● It emphasised the concept of government by consent.

● Since the French Revolution, liberalism had stood for the end of autocracy and clerical
privileges.
● A constitution and representative government through parliament.
● Nineteenth-century liberals also stressed the inviolability of private property.
Yet, equality before the law did not necessarily stand for universal suffrage.
Connect with French Revolution

Liberalism in Economic Sphere
The emerging middle classes demanded for the freedom of markets and the abolition of state
imposed restrictions on the movement of goods and capital.
Why?
● Challenges in the economic set up at that time.

● Differences in unit of weight and measurement of goods. (E.g. - Elle)
Such conditions were viewed as obstacles to economic exchange

and growth by the new commercial classes.
∴ Creation of a unified economic territory was demanded.
● In 1834, a customs union or zollverein was formed at the initiative of Prussia

and joined by most of the German states.
● The union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from
over thirty to two.
● The creation of a network of railways further stimulated mobility, harnessing
economic interests to national unification.
A wave of economic nationalism strengthened the wider nationalist

sentiments growing at the time.
A New Conservatism after 1815
Connect the story
Defeat of Napoleon, 1815 Spirit of conservatism
What is conservatism?
Conservatives + Ism
Conservatives believed that established, traditional institutions of state

and society - like the monarchy, the Church, social hierarchies, property
and the family - should be preserved.
Were conservatives against the change?
● Most conservatives, did not propose a return to the society of pre-revolutionary days.
● Modernisation could in fact strengthen traditional institutions like the monarchy.
How?
A modern army, an efficient bureaucracy, a dynamic economy, the abolition of feudalism

and serfdom could strengthen the autocratic monarchies of Europe.
Defeat of Napoleon, 1815 Spirit of conservatism Aftermath
Treaty of Vienna
● Representatives of the European powers - Britain, Russia,

Prussia and Austria - who had collectively defeated Napoleon,
met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for Europe.
● The Congress was hosted by the Austrian Chancellor Duke
Metternich.
● The main intention was to restore the monarchies that had
Duke Metternich
been overthrown by Napoleon, and create a new conservative
order in Europe.
Changes introduced under treaty of vienna
● The Bourbon dynasty, which had been deposed during the French
Revolution, was restored to power.
● France lost the territories it had annexed under Napoleon.
● A series of states were set up on the boundaries of France to prevent
French expansion in future.
■ Thus the kingdom of the Netherlands, which included Belgium, was set up in the
north and Genoa was added to Piedmont in the south.
■ Prussia was given important new territories on its western frontiers, while Austria
was given control of northern Italy.
■ Russia was given part of Poland while Prussia was given a portion of Saxony.
The new conservative regime V/S The society
● Conservative regimes set up in 1815 were autocratic.

● They did not tolerate criticism and dissent, and sought to curb activities that
questioned the legitimacy of autocratic governments.
● Most of them imposed censorship laws to control what was said in newspapers,
books, plays and songs and reflected the ideas of liberty and freedom associated
with the French Revolution.
Impact
The memory of the French Revolution nonetheless continued to inspire liberals.

The Revolutionaries
Conservative regime after 1815 Drove many liberal nationalists underground.
Secret societies sprang up in many European states to train revolutionaries and spread their ideas.
Revolutionary
● A commitment to oppose monarchical forms that had been

established after the Vienna Congress, and to fight for liberty and
freedom.
● Most of these revolutionaries also saw the creation of
Giuseppe Mazzini and the nation-states as a necessary part of this struggle for freedom.
founding of Young Europe in
Berne 1833.
Giuseppe Mazzini
● Italian revolutionary, born in Genoa in 1807.

● He became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari.
● As a young man of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for
attempting a revolution in Liguria.
● He subsequently founded two more underground societies.
➔ Young Italy in Marseilles.

➔ Young Europe in Berne.
The idea of Giuseppe Mazzini
“He believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind.”
● Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.

● It had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations.
● This unification alone could be the basis of Italian liberty.
Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics

frightened the conservatives.
➔ Metternich described him as ‘the most dangerous enemy of our social order’.
The Age of Revolutions: 1830 - 1848
Connect the story
The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Revolutions
French Revolution (1789)
Napoleonic wars begin (1797) ● France

● Belgium
Fall of Napoleon and Conservatives regime (1815 - 1830) ● Greece
Revolutions (1830 - 1848)
Led by the liberal-nationalists belonging to the educated middle-class elite.

Among whom were professors, schoolteachers, clerks and members of the commercial middle classes.
July revolution in france
‘When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold.’

- Duke Metternich
● The Bourbon kings who had been restored to power during the
conservative reaction after 1815, were now overthrown by liberal
revolutionaries.
● Installed a constitutional monarchy with Louis Philippe at its head.

Louis Philippe
‘When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold.’
July Revolutions
Sparked an uprising in Brussels which led to

Belgium breaking away from the United Kingdom
of the Netherlands.
Greek War of Independence
● An event that mobilised nationalist feelings among the educated elite across Europe.
● Greece had been part of the Ottoman Empire since the fifteenth century.
● The growth of revolutionary nationalism in Europe sparked off a struggle for independence
amongst the Greeks which began in 1821.
● Nationalists in Greece got support from other Greeks living in exile and also from many
West Europeans who had sympathies for ancient Greek culture.
● Poets and artists lauded Greece as the cradle of European civilisation and mobilised public
opinion to support its struggle a gainst a Muslim empire.
➢ The Treaty of Constantinople of 1832 recognised Greece as an independent nation.

Lord Byron
● English poet who fought for the Greek war of independence.
● He organised funds and later went to fright in the war, where

he died of fever in 1824.
The Romantic Imagination and National Feelings
Theme
● Nationalism did not come about only through wars

and territorial expansion.
● Culture played an important role in creating the idea
of the nation: art and poetry, stories and music
helped express and shape nationalist feelings.
Romanticism
● An ideology where culture, art and ideas are focused upon to create a form of
nationalist sentiments.
● Romantic artists and poets generally criticised the glorification of reason and
science and focused instead on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings.
● Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common

cultural past, as the basis of a nation.
Ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder
● Claimed that true German culture was to be discovered

among the common people - das volk.
● It was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that
the true spirit of the nation (volksgeist) was popularised.
● So collecting and recording these forms of folk culture was

essential to the project of nation-building.
Johann Gottfried Herder

Role of Vernacular language and local folklore
Helpful in recovering an ancient national spirit.

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Important to carry the modern nationalist message to large audiences who were mostly illiterate.
Example of Poland
● Poland, had been partitioned at the end of the eighteenth century by the Great Powers -
Russia, Prussia and Austria.
● Even though Poland no longer existed as an independent territory, national feelings were
kept alive through music and language.
Karol Kurpinski
Celebrated the national struggle

through his operas and music, turning
folk dances like the polonaise and
mazurka into nationalist symbols.
Language too played an important role in developing nationalist sentiments.
● After Russian occupation, the Polish language was forced out of schools and the Russian
language was imposed everywhere.
● In 1831, an armed rebellion against Russian rule took place which was ultimately crushed.
● Following this, many members of the clergy in Poland began to use language as a weapon of
national resistance.
● Polish was used for Church gatherings and all religious instruction.
● The use of Polish came to be seen as a symbol of the struggle against Russian dominance.
Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt
1830’s
The years of great economic hardship in Europe. Reasons
Increase in population
Unmployment Migration Overcrowded slums
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The rise of food prices or a year of bad harvest led to widespread
pauperism in town and country.
➔ Industrialisation in England further created hardships.
How?
● Imports of cheap machine-made goods from England.

● Small producers in town faced shift competition.
● Textile production (mainly at small scale) suffered a lot.
In those regions of Europe where the aristocracy still enjoyed power, peasants
struggled under the burden of feudal dues and obligations.
Outcomes
Hunger + Hardship = Popular Revolt
Revolts of poor in France, 1848
● Food shortages and widespread unemployment brought the population of Paris out on the roads.
● Barricades were erected and Louis Philippe was forced to flee.
Results
■ A National Assembly proclaimed a Republic.

■ Granted suffrage to all adult males above 21.
■ Guaranteed the right to work.
The story of revolt is Silesia
The journalist Wilhelm Wolff described the events in a Silesian village as follows:
1848: The Revolution of the Liberals
The revolutions in 1848
Revolt of the poor, 1848 Revolt of educate middle classes
● Events of February 1848 in France had brought about the abdication of the monarch and a
republic based on universal male suffrage had been proclaimed.
● In other parts of Europe where independent nation-states did not yet exist - such as
Germany, Italy, Poland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
● Men and women of the liberal middle classes combined their demands for constitutionalism
with national unification.
They took advantage of the growing popular unrest to push their demands for the creation of a nation
state on parliamentary principles - a constitution, freedom of the press and freedom of association.
The revolution of liberals in Germany region
In German region
● Members were middle-class professionals, businessmen and prosperous artisans came

together in the city of Frankfurt.
To vote for an All - German National Assembly
● On 18 May 1848, 831 elected representatives marched in a festive procession to take their
places in the Frankfurt parliament convened in the Church of St Paul.
● They drafted a constitution for a German nation to be headed by a monarchy subject to a
parliament.
Outcomes
All German National Assembly Wanted monarchy subject to the constitution.
Outcomes
● When the deputies offered the crown on these terms to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of
Prussia.
● He rejected it and joined other monarchs to oppose the elected assembly.
● While the opposition of the aristocracy and military became stronger, the social basis of
parliament eroded.
● The parliament was dominated by the middle classes who resisted the demands of workers
and artisans and consequently lost their support.
● In the end troops were called in and the assembly was forced to disband.
The issue of extending political rights to women. Controversial
Explain
● Within the liberal movement, large numbers of women had participated actively over the
years.
● Women had formed their own political associations, founded newspapers and taken part
in political meetings and demonstrations.
● Despite this they were denied suffrage rights during the election of the Assembly.
● When the Frankfurt parliament convened in the Church of St Paul, women were admitted
only as observers to stand in the visitors’ gallery.
The Frankfurt parliament in the

Church of St Paul.
Contemporary colour print. Notice
the women in the upper left gallery.
Was the revolution of the liberals, 1848 a failed attempt?
Though conservative forces were able to suppress liberal movements

in 1848, they could not restore the old order.
Explain
● Monarchs were beginning to realise that the cycles of revolution and repression could only be
ended by granting concessions to the liberal-nationalist revolutionaries.
● Hence, in the years after 1848, the autocratic monarchies of Central and Eastern Europe began to
introduce the changes that had already taken place in Western Europe before 1815.
● Thus serfdom and bonded labour were abolished both in the Habsburg dominions and in Russia.
● The Habsburg rulers granted more autonomy to the Hungarians in 1867.
The Making of Germany
Germany - Can the army be the architect of a Nation?
Connect the story
● After 1848, nationalism in Europe moved away from its association with democracy
and revolution.
● Nationalist sentiments were often mobilised by conservatives for promoting state
power and achieving political domination over Europe.
The making of Germany and Italy as nation state.

Tried to unite the different regions of the

The liberal middle class Germans in 1848 German confederation into a nation-state
governed by an elected parliament.
Outcomes
This liberal initiative to nation-building was, however, repressed by the combined forces of the
monarchy and the military, supported by the large landowners (called Junkers) of Prussia.
Then how Germany was unified?
Army the architect of a nation

➔ After the failed attempt of liberals, Prussia took on the

leadership of the movement for national unification.
How?
● Its chief minister, Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of this
process carried out with the help of the Prussian army and
bureaucracy.
● Three wars over seven years - with Austria, Denmark and
France - ended in Prussian victory and completed the process
Otto Von Bismarck
of unification.
● In January 1871, the Prussian king, William I, was proclaimed
German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles.
Friedrich Wilhelm IV William I

Unification of Germany VS Making of Germany
Explain
● The nation-building process in Germany had demonstrated the dominance of

Prussian state power.
● The new state placed a strong emphasis on modernising the currency, banking,
legal and judicial systems in Germany.
● Prussian measures and practices often became a model for the rest of Germany.
Unification of Germany (1866-71)

Italy Unified
Italy too had a long history of political fragmentation.
● During the middle of the nineteenth century, Italy was

divided into seven states, of which only one,
Sardinia-Piedmont, was ruled by an Italian princely house.
● The north was under Austrian Habsburgs.
● The centre was ruled by the Pope.
● The southern regions were under the domination of the
Bourbon kings of Spain.
● Even the Italian language had not acquired one common
form and still had many regional and local variations. Italian states before unification, 1858
Then how Italy was unified?
● During the 1830s, Giuseppe Mazzini had sought to put together

a coherent programme for a unified Italian Republic.
● He had also formed a secret society called Young Italy for the
dissemination of his goals.
Failed
The failure of revolutionary uprisings both in 1831 and 1848 meant

that the mantle now fell on Sardinia-Piedmont under its ruler King
Victor Emmanuel II to unify the Italian states through war.
How and Why would the King Victor Emmanuel II unify the Italian states?
How? Unification of Italy with the help of Cavour and Garibaldi.
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In the eyes of the ruling elites of this region, a unified Italy
Why? offered them the possibility of economic development and
political dominance.
➔ Contribution of chief minister cavour
● Chief Minister Cavour who led the movement to unify

the regions of Italy was neither a revolutionary nor a
democrat.
● Like many other wealthy and educated members of
the Italian elite, he spoke French much better than he
did Italian.
● Through a tactful diplomatic alliance with France
engineered by Cavour, Sardinia-Piedmont succeeded
in defeating the Austrian forces in 1859. Italy after unification.
The map shows the year in which
different regions become part of a
unified Italy.
➔ Contribution of Giuseppe Garibaldi
● A large number of armed volunteers under the leadership of

Giuseppe Garibaldi fought for the unification of southern
part of Italy.
● In 1860, they marched into South Italy and the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies and succeeded in winning the support of the
local peasants in order to drive out the Spanish rulers.
In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united Italy.

Unification of Germany VS Making of Germany
Explain
● Much of the Italian population, among whom rates of

illiteracy were very high, remained blissfully unaware of
liberal nationalist ideology.
● The peasant masses who had supported Garibaldi in

southern Italy had never heard of Italia, and believed that
*Victor Emmanuel
‘La Talia’ was Victor Emmanuel’s wife!
The Strange Case of Britain
● In Britain the formation of the nation-state was not the result

Strange?? of a sudden upheaval or revolution.
● It was the result of a long-drawn-out process.
The primary identities of the people who inhabited the British Isles were ethnic ones.
● English
● Welsh
● Scot
● Irish
● The English nation steadily grew in wealth, importance and power, it was able to extend
its influence over the other nations of the islands.
English Parliament Seized power from monarchy in 1688 at the end of a

protracted conflict.
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● Between England and Scotland that resulted in the
Act of union 1707 formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’.
● England was able to impose its influence on Scotland.
● The British parliament was henceforth dominated by
+ its English members.
Incorporation of Ireland
Impact
Impact of Act of Union 1707
● The growth of a British identity meant that Scotland’s distinctive culture

and political institutions were systematically suppressed.
● The Catholic clans that inhabited the Scottish Highlands suffered terrible
repression whenever they attempted to assert their independence.
Catholics V/S Protestants
● The Scottish Highlanders were forbidden to speak their Gaelic language

or wear their national dress.
● Large numbers were forcibly driven out of their homeland.
Incorporation of Ireland
● It was a country deeply divided between Catholics and Protestants.
● The English helped the Protestants of Ireland to establish their

dominance over a largely Catholic country.
● Catholic revolts against British dominance were suppressed.
● Revolt led by Wolfe Tone and his United Irishmen (1798).
● Ireland was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801.

Forging a new British nation
A new ‘British nation’ was forged through the propagation of a dominant English culture.
The symbols of the new Britain - the British flag (Union Jack), the national anthem
(God Save Our Noble King), the English language - were actively promoted and the
older nations survived only as subordinate partners in this union.
Visualising the Nation
How does one go about giving a face to a nation?
Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation.
How?
● Nations were then portrayed as female figures.

● It sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form.
● The female figure became an allegory of the nation.
French Revolution
● Artists used the female allegory to portray ideas such as Liberty, Justice and the Republic.
● These ideals were represented through specific objects or symbols.
+ = Liberty
Postage stamps of
= Justice 1850 with the figure of
Marianne
representing the
Republic of France.
Allegory of France Marianne
● Underlined the idea of a people’s nation.
● Her characteristics were drawn from those of Liberty and

the Republic - the red cap, the tricolour, the cockade.
● Statues of Marianne were erected in public squares to

remind the public of the national symbol of unity and to
persuade them to identify with it.
● Marianne images were marked on coins and stamps.

Allegory of Germany Germania
In visual representations, Germania wears a crown of oak

leaves, as the German oak stands for heroism.
Nationalism and Imperialism
Nationalism VS Imperialism
By the last quarter of the nineteenth century nationalism no longer

retained its idealistic liberal-democratic sentiment.
Why?
● Nationalist groups became increasingly intolerant of each other and ever ready to go to war.
● The major European powers, in turn, manipulated the nationalist aspirations of the subject
peoples in Europe to further their own imperialist aims.
Balkans
● A region of geographical and ethnic variation

comprising modern-day Romania, Bulgaria,
Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia and
Montenegro.
● Inhabitants were broadly known as the Slavs.
The Balkan area became most serious source

of nationalis tension in Europe after 1871.
Explain
Ottoman Empire Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire

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Spread of Romantic nationalism
The Balkan region became explosive.
● One by one, European subject nationalities broke away from its control and declared
independence.
● The Balkan peoples based their claims for independence or political rights on nationality
and used history to prove that they had once been independent but had subsequently been
subjugated by foreign powers.
● Hence the rebellious nationalities in the Balkans thought of their struggles as attempts to
win back their long-lost independence.
Slavic Nationalities Struggle to define their identity and independence.
● Balkan area became an area of intense conflict.

● The Balkan states were fiercely jealous of each other and each hoped to gain more
territory at the expense of the others.
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Balkan region became the ground for big power rivalry.
● Each power - Russia, Germany, England, Austro-Hungary - was keen on countering the
hold of other powers over the Balkans, and extending its own control over the area.
This led to a series of wars in the region and finally the First World War.
Nationalism, aligned with imperialism, led Europe to disaster in 1914.
Is nationalism of no use?
Many countries in the world which had been colonised by the European
powers in the nineteenth century began to oppose imperial domination.
Anti-imperial movements = Nationalism
● In the sense that they all struggled to form independent nation-states, and were inspired
by a sense of collective national unity, forged in confrontation with imperialism.
● The idea that societies should be organised into ‘nation-states’ came to be accepted as
natural and universal.

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Class 10th - History - The Rise of Nationalism in Europe - Full Chapter Explanation

The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics - The Pact

The dream of worldwide democratic and social republics

Sorrieu’s Utopian Vision

Symbolise fraternity among the nations of the world.

Connect with the theme of the chapter

Emergence of nation state in place of the multinational dynastic empire of Europe.

Modern State Nation State

Nation State Created a sense of collective identity.

● This commonness did not exist from time immemorial.

Theme of the chapter

The diverse processes through which nation-states and

What we are going to study in this chapter?

■ The French revolution and the idea of Nation

■ The making of nationalism in Europe

■ The age of revolutions - (1830 - 1848)

What we are going to study in this chapter?

■ The making of Germany and Italy

■ Visualising the nation

■ Nationalism and imperialism

The French Revolution and the Idea of Nation

➔ The first clear expression of nationalism French Revolution in 1789

The French revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty.

Monarchy Body of French citizens

French Revolution in 1789 Shift of power

Objective of French Revolution

The revolutionaries further declared that it was the mission

Help other peoples of Europe to become nations.

French Revolution Europe

● French armies which moved into Holland, Belgium,

● Outbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies

Napoleon and his role

Napoleon France Europe

● Napoleon set about introducing many of the reforms that

● Through a return to monarchy Napoleon had, no doubt,

Civil code of 1804 Napoleon

Civil code of 1804

Usually known as napoleonic code.

The reactions of the local populations to French rule were mixed.

Increased taxation, censorship, forced conscription into the

The Making of Nationalism in Europe

Making of nationalism No nationalism

What we know today as Germany, Italy and Switzerland

The example of Habsburg Empire

The Aristocracy and The New Middle Class

Aristocracy New middle class

● United by a common way of life that cut across regional divisions.

Then who were in majority?

The majority of the population was made up of the peasantry.

➢ To the west, the bulk of the land was farmed by tenants

New middle class

The growth of towns and the emergence of

Emergence of a working-class population, and middle classes made up

Where did the new middle class emerged?

What did Liberal Nationalism Stand for?

Ideas of national unity in early-nineteenth-century Europe were

For the new middle classes liberalism stood

Liberalism in Political Sphere

● It emphasised the concept of government by consent.

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