European Nation-States in the Age of Mass Politics History 104 / March 18, 2013
Patriotic songs
“jingoism” We don't want to fight But, by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men, We've got the money, too. (Britain, ca. 1877)
Claude Monet ( ) French patriotic festivities, 1878
A national trauma: France’s loss of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871
Commemorating national heroes: the statue of Emperor Wilhelm I in Koblenz (ca. 1897)
Integrative figures: Britain’s Queen Victoria (rules )
Integrative figures: Austria-Hungary’s Franz Josef (rules ) Postcard and stamp commemorating the 60th year of his rule
Italy’s north-south problem: corruption and underdevelopment in the “Mezzogiorno”
What turned “peasants into Frenchmen”?
Major adjustments in Catholic teachings Pius IX Pope,
Bismarck’s fight against the Catholics in Germany, ca
Marx, Engels, and the International Working Men’s Association (1864)
The Paris Commune (1871)
Paris besieged by a French army
Germany’s anti- socialist law (1878; repealed 1890)