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The Restoration in Europe
The Restoration in Europe
nationalisim nation must be defended above all else. It was also born from the
French Revolution and its defense of the territory against foreign
invasion attempts. There are two types of nationalism:
Binding: try to include several territories with common
characteristics within a single country.
Separatist: it tries to separate itself from a country to which it
belongs, claiming differentiating characteristics.
The German-speaking peoples or the Italian-speaking
peoples want to unite, respectively, in two countries.
Greece and other Balkan peoples want to separate from
Examples of the Ottoman Empire.
nationalist Belgium from the Netherlands.
movementes Norway, from Denmark.
In the Austrian Empire multiple nationalities coexist,
the same as in the Russian and the Ottoman.
To end with the social and economic inequalities
produced by the bourgeois liberalism.
Italy and saw the possibility of breaking the European balance of the
Congress of Vienna by helping the nationalist outbreaks. Thus
Germany he thought that, when the new Italian nation was constituted
with his help, it would obtain new territories in compensation.
At first, three unification models were proposed for italy:
• Republican and democratic: with the activists Giuseppe
Mazzini, who led the revolutionary society Giovine Italia and
Giuseppe Garibaldi, revolutionary by vocation, they proposed
an openly democratic country with profound social reforms.
Unifications of • Neo-Gelph: under the direction of the politician and priest
Italy and Vicenzo Gioberti. They were monarchists and Catholics and
wanted Italy to be a confederation of states led by the Pope.
Germany • Piedmontese: based on unifying Italy around the powerful
northern state of Piedmont, under the Savoy monarchy. This
model would be the winner, guided by King Victor Emmanuel
II and the skillful parliamentarian Count of Cavour.
There were two models of unification for Germany:
Italy and • Under Prussian control, which will be the one that finally
prevails.
Germany
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