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Slide1
Warm Up Activity
Make
a list of
all that you know about the concept of Liberalism. Slide2
Early 19
th
Century
Nationalism
and LiberalismSlide3
Objective
Today we will be able to describe the main aspects of
the early manifestations of nationalism
and
Liberalism in 19
th
century Europe.Slide4
Nationalism
A nation – people who are joined together by the bonds of a common language, as well as common customs, culture, and history, and who, because of these bonds, should be administered by the same government.
Political and ethnic boundaries should coincide.Slide5
Emergence of Nationalism in 19
th
Century Europe
In reaction to Napoleonic Europe
In reaction to the Vienna Settlement
Conservatives organized Europe on the basis of monarchies which ignored political organization based on ethnicity.
Nationalism diffused from nationalism intellectuals who used print to spread their ideas,
particularly
the nationalist concept of the nation.
Writers gave people a sense of their past and a literature of their own.
School teacher taught in vernaculars.
Early nationalists provided the foundation of late 19
th
century
mass nationalist movements.Slide6
Regions of Early Nationalism
Ireland
Britain subjugated Ireland in 1800.
Germany
A nation for all German speaking peoples challenging Austrian Empire and pitting Prussia and Austria against each other.
Poland
Polish nationalists struggled to restore Poland as an independent nation
Hungarians, Czechs, Slovenes sought independence from Austrian Empire
Balkans
Serbs, Greeks, Albanians, Romanians and Bulgarians sought independence from Ottomans.Slide7
What is Liberalism?
A political philosophy or worldview founded on the ideas of liberty and
equality.
Nineteenth-century liberalism was more than an economic and political theory: it was a way of viewing the world.
Foundations
of Liberalism are in
Enlightenment ideas, English liberties and the principles of 1789 (DOROMC).Slide8
Liberalism’s Main Tenets
All individuals should be equal before the law.
Individuals were born good, free, and capable of improvement.
Economic liberals believed in “laissez-faire”, or “hands-off” economics.
The economy should operate freely without state interference.
Governments should be organized by constitutions and be representative.
People should have civil liberties such as freedom of the press and of assembly.
The middle and lower classes should be able to participate in political life.
Not necessarily women and the landless poor though.Slide9
Laissez – Faire Economics
Laissez – Faire: “Let do as (one) pleases”.
Economic liberals feel that non-intervention by the state in the economy will bring the greatest degree of prosperity and happiness.
Adam Smith, author of,
The Wealth of Nations
(1776), was a leading advocate of government non-interference in the economy.
When people pursue their own interest in the economy, they create wealth. This assists the general good and allocates resources in society like an “invisible hand”.Slide10Slide11
In
Defence
of Laissez-Faire,
c
. 1840 - Pamphlet
Read the pamphlet,
In
Defence
of Laissez-Fair
.
Answer the guided reading questions in complete sentences.