HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Three: Burgertum and Liberalism
Conservatism as Reaction to French Revolution Metternich’s Analysis
“Liberalism” as Modernism The “Public Sphere” Rule of Law and Bureaucratic Accountability Removal of Old “Estates” Privileges Emancipation of Jews Economic Modernization
Liberalism and Capitalism Burgertum, Mittelstand, Merchants, Bankers, and Industrialists The Idea of Laissez-Faire Prussia, the Zollverein, and Economic Development
Liberalism and Nationalism German Nationalism and Napoleon Nationalism as Threat to Aristocracy Volk and/or Nation Manifestations of Nationalist Liberalism Burschenschaften Turnvereine Hambacher Fest
Liberalism and Democracy Not the Same Thing Traditions of Voting and Representation Censorship
Romanticism Biedermeier – The Culture of the Mittelstand Romanticism and the Arts – Goethe, Caspar David Friedrich, Felix Mendelssohn Romanticism and the Common People – Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl