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Section 10.50.rev
Section 10.50.rev
Movements:
Germany
Section 10. 50
Questions to Consider
• Of what significance was the Napoleonic age for
the development of nationalism? What different
form did nationalist feelings take?
• Describe the change in German national-
mindedness that set in about 1780. How did the
ideas emerging in Germany differ from the ideas
characteristics of the Enlightenment?
• Discuss the development of nationalist political
thought in Napoleonic Germany. In what sense
was it “democratic”? What manifestations of
German nationalist activities appeared?
• Describe the principal aims of the army reformers
in Prussia and the political philosophy and reforms
of Baron Stein.
Terms to Know
• Herder • Closed Commercial
• Romanticism State
• Volksgeist • Gneisenau
• “Father” Jahn • Baron Stein
• Germany in Its Deep • Tugendbund
Humiliation
• Fichte
• Addresses to the
German Nation
The Resistance to Napoleon: Nationalism
• Reasons for resentment
– Army plundering, requisitions
– New states required to pay
tribute of men and money
– policies dictated by French
representatives
– Continental System benefits
French manufacturers
– Feel they are being used by
France as tools against
England
– People tired of war, rumors of
war, conscription, taxes, loss
of lives and local liberties
– Began to see Napoleon as
megalomaniac
Confederation of the Rhine
1806-1813
Result was a rise in nationalistic feeling
• Nationalism developed as a reaction against
internationalism and empire
• Internationalism=French culture, Empire
=Napoleon’s autocracy
• A mixture of conservative and liberal interests
– insisted on value of their own customs,
folkways: conservative
– self-determination, participation in government:
liberal
• Nationalistic movements took various shapes
• England: powerful unifying force for all classes
against ‘Boney’
– Even thou England is experiencing dislocation,
misery or Industrial Revolution
Spain: divisive force
Took form of absolute resistance to French
Liberal bourgeois
Conservative: clergy and Bourbons
Drew greatest strength from
counterrevolutionary, restoration of clergy,
Bourbons