Nationalism Study Guide
One of the most influential concepts of modern political thought is the idea of the nation.
The word nation refers to a type of community that became especially prominent in the
19th century. The time period created a rise in regional rebellions in large empires. This
was mostly due to rise of imperialism and the
growth of global empires. This small unit is
significant in the fact that it disrupts “old war”
political thought which focuses on the
formation of empires. The thoughts of
liberalism begin to rise once again and used to
justify the unification of common people of
common cultural background. The formation
of modern states such as Greece, Germany
and Italy wave the flag of nationalism as their
motto and justification for unification of their
people. Nationalism will eventually spark a world war the Earth has never seen before in
it’s history. It will also spawn a hateful form that will take the original political thought
of nationalism to another degree and threaten the world a second time in history.
Unit Objectives
-Indentify the source of nationalism and how it inspired rebellion in the 19th century.
-Recognize the similarities between nationalistic uprisings of Greece, Germany, Italy and
Japan.
-Generalize the unification of Germany and Italy and be able to identify the nationalistic
characteristics of the time period.
-Compare and contrast 19th century European nationalistic movements to that of 21st
century nationalistic movements in Africa.
Vocab:
Nationalism
Zionism
Cultural Nationalism
Anti-Semitism
Political Nationalism
Congress of Vienna
Otto von Bismarck
Realpolitik
Giuseppe Mazzini
Greek War of
Independence
Questions:
1) Many different qualities comprise nationalism. Define nationalism and describe
its origins in modern Europe? What are the similarities and differences between
cultural nationalism and political nationalism?
2) What was the ultimate goal of the Zionist and who were the leaders of the
movement? How were they organized and what obstacles did they face?
3) “The Congress of Vienna is a band aid temporarily fixing a large problem?”
How does this statement reveal the weakness of the Congress of Vienna and the
difficult goal of maintaining the status quo?. How did the emergence of
nationalism upset the “Concert of Europe?”
4) What is the significance of the unification of Germany and Italy in the balance of
power in Europe?
Timeline: 19th Century Europe Philosophy
Visual Arts
Goya (1746-1828)
David (1748-1825)
Delacroix (1798-1863)
Degas (1834-1917)
Cézanne (1839-1906)
Rodin (1840-1917)
van Gogh (1853-90)
Lautrec (1864-1901)
Literature
1807: Wordsworth - Ode, Intimations of
Immortality
1808: Goethe - Faust (Pt. 1)
1818: Shelley - Frankenstein
1827: Heine - Book of Songs
1842: Gogol - Dead Souls (Vol. 1)
1853: Dickens - Bleak House
1857: Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
1857: Flaubert - Madam Bovary
1866: Swinburne - Poems & Ballads
1877: Ibsen - Pillars of Society
1879: Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
1883: Maupassant - A Woman's Life
1885: Zola - Germinal
1888: Bellamy - Looking Backward
1894: Wilde - Salomé
Science & Technology
1800: Alessandro Volta - produces 1st electric
battery
1804: Jacquard patents automatic loom
1808: John Dalton - New System of Chemical
Philosophy
1809: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck - Zoological
Philosophy
1820: Hans Christian Oersted - Experiments on
the effects of an electrical conflict on a magnetic
needle
1821: Michael Faraday - demonstrates electrical
energy can be continually converted into
mechanical energy
1828: Friedrich Wöhler - synthesizes organic
compound in the lab
1830: Charles Lyell - The Principles of Geology
1831: Michael Faraday - demonstrates principle
of induction
1837: Electric telegraph line set up
1838-39: Matthias Schleiden and Theodor
Schwann - develop cell theory
1840: James Joule - develops concept of the
conservation of energy
1847: Helmholtz - On the Conservation of Force
1856: William Ferrel - Essay on the Winds and
Currents of the Ocean
1859: Charles Darwin - Origin of the Species
1866: Gregor Mendel - Experiments with Plant
Hybrids
1869: Dmitri Mendeleyev - Periodic Table of the
Chemical Elements
1873: Maxwell - Electricity and Magnetism
1876: Koch identifies a germ connected w/ a
specific disease (anthrax)
1876: Bell patents telephone [U.S.]
1876: Otto patents 1st internal combustion
engine
1879: Edison creates commercially practical
incandescent lamp [U.S.]
1882: Edison sets up electricity generating plant
based on dynamos [U.S.]
1885: Pasteur - rabies vaccine
1893: Mach - The Science of Mechanics
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen - discovers x-rays
1897: J. J. Thomson - discovers the electron
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium
and polonium
Social/Political/Political Economy: Practice
Various wars throughout the century
Free trade (Britain) from the 1840s into the 20th
century
Industrial Cycles:
1st - 1780s to 1840s (textiles)
2nd - 1840s t0 1870s ((railway and iron)
3rd - (organic chemicals, steel, electrical
machinery)
1804: Napoleon voted emperor
1806-22: Wars of South American Independence
1807: Great Britain prohibits slave trade
1811: Luddites attack mechanization
1814-15: Congress of Vienna
1815: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo - end of
Napoleonic Wars
1824: Combination Acts repealed in England
1825: Decembrist rising against Tsar Nicholas I
1829: Catholic Emancipation Act
1830: 1st passenger railway opens
1833: Factory Act bans employment of children
under 9
1833: Slavery abolished in British colonies
1848: "Year of Revolutions"
1854-56: Crimean War
1857-58: Indian Mutiny
1861: Alexander II abolishes serfdom
1861: Italy unified
1861-65: American Civil War
1864: International Workingmen's Association
(1st International) founded
1871: Germany unified
1871: Paris Commune
1871: Trade unions legalized in Britain
1881: 1st pogrom (after assassination of
Alexander II)
1883: Bismarck introduces sickness insurance
1884: Berlin West Africa Conference
1894: Dreyfus convicted of treason
1898: Spanish - U.S. War
1899: 1st Hague Peace Conference