Transcript The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

Chapter 25
The Age of
Nationalism,
1850–1914
Paris in the Second Empire
The flash and glitter of unprecedented prosperity in the Second Empire come alive in
this vibrant contemporary painting. Writers and intellectuals chat with elegant women
and trade witticisms with financiers and government officials at the Café Tortoni, a
favorite rendezvous for fashionable society. Horse-drawn omnibuses with open top
decks mingle with cabs and private carriages on the broad new boulevard.
Lauros/Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library
The Unification of Italy,
1859–1870
The Unification of Italy, 1859–1870
The Unification of Germany,
1866–1871
This map shows how Prussia
expanded and a new German empire
was created through two wars, the
Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the
Franco- Prussian War of 1870–1871.
It deserves careful study because it
highlights how central Europe was
remade and the power of PrussiaGermany was greatly increased.•1
What were the results of the AustroPrussian War? Specifically, how did
Prussia treat its neighbors in the
north, such as Hanover and
Saxony?•2 What losses did Austria
experience in 1866?•3 What were the
results of the Franco-Prussian War
for France and for the predominately
Catholic states of southern Germany,
such as Bavaria and Württemberg?
Slavery in the United States, 1860
This map illustrates the nation on the eve of the Civil War. Although many issues
contributed to the developing opposition between North and South, slavery was the
fundamental, enduring force that underlay all others. Lincoln’s prediction, “I believe
this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free,” tragically
proved correct.
Carol Berkin et al., Making America: A History of the United States, 2d ed., p. 322. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton
Mifflin Company. Reprinted with permission.
The Fruits of Terrorism, 1881
In the late 1870s a small group of revolutionaries believed that killing the tsar could
destroy the Russian state. Succeeding in blowing up the reforming Alexander II after
several near misses, the five assassins, including one woman, were quickly caught
and hanged. Russia entered an era of reaction and harsh authoritarian rule.
Visual Connection Archive
Pasha Halim Receiving Archduke Maximilian of Austria
As this painting suggests, Ottoman leaders became well versed in European
languages and culture. They also mastered the game of power politics, playing one
European state off against another and securing the Ottoman Empire’s survival. The
black servants on the right may be slaves from Sudan.
Miramare Palace Trieste/Dagli Orti/The Art Archive)
“Votes for Women!”
The long-simmering campaign for women’s suffrage in England came to a rapid boil
after 1903, as militants took to the streets, disrupted political meetings, and tried to
storm Parliament. Manhandled by the police and often jailed, some activists
responded by damaging public property and going on hunger strikes in prison. This
1908 illustration shows demonstrators giving a hero’s welcome to Mary Leigh, the first
suffragette imprisoned for property damage after she threw rocks through the
windows of the prime minister’s house.
The Illustrated London News Picture Library
Edmond de Rothschild Visits
Palestine
Born into the French branch of
modern Europe’s most famous
banking family, Baron Edmond de
Rothschild played an important role in
early Jewish settlements in the
Ottoman province of Palestine.
Beginning in the 1880s, Rothschild
purchased large tracts of land from
Arab landowners, and on several
occasions he visited the Jewish
colonists that he continued to
support. Seen here in a long coat on
a Turkish train, he is flanked by
Ottoman officials.
Courtesy, Central Zionist Archive, Jerusalem
Theodor Herzl.
Theodor Herzl.
Library of Congress
1890 engraving of a meeting of
workers in Berlin.
1890 engraving of a meeting of
workers in Berlin.
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY