 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859-1871
Learning ObjectivesChapter 13 teaches students about:
| The moral and psychological consolidation of nation-states, which entailed an expansion of constitutionalism, even in Japan and Russia. |
| | | | The role of war in nation-state consolidation. |
| | | | The unification of Italy under Cavour's politics of reality. |
| | | | Bismarck's role in founding a German empire. |
| | | | The power of the newly consolidated German empire, which magnified the role of Prussia among the European powers. |
| | | | The establishment of a dual monarchy in Austria-Hungary, which represented a compromise between Germans and Magyars and the exclusion of other nationalities. |
| | | | Alexander II's cultivation of liberal support and the threat to his rule by revolutionists, especially anarchists. |
| | | | The impact of the 1861 Act of Emancipation and other reforms on Russian society. |
| | | | The resolution of secessionist tendencies in the U.S. by way of the victory of the North during the American Civil war. |
| | | | The resolution of separatist tendencies in Canada with the reunion of French and English regions and the pioneering of dominion status. |
| | | | Japan's rapid modernization and westernization after centuries of isolation and antiforeign sentiments. |
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