Exam 21: Ideologies and Upheavals 1815-1850

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Children's Stories and Household Tales (Evaluating the Evidence 21.3): "The true value of these tales must really be set quite high: they put our ancient heroic poetry in a new light that could not have been produced in any other way. Briar Rose [or Sleeping Beauty], who is put to sleep after being pricked by a spindle, is really Brunhilde, put to sleep after being pricked by a thorn. . . . Snow White sleeps peacefully with the same glowing red colors of life on her cheeks as Snaefrid, the most beautiful woman of all, at whose coffin sits Harald the Fair-Haired [Brunhilde, Snaefrid, and Harald are characters from ancient Germanic myths]. . . . These folktales have kept intact German myths that were thought to be lost. . . ." The Grimms linked Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to

The romantic movement was characterized by

Many Europeans and Americans embraced the Greek Revolution because

Germaine de Staël urged the French to throw away worn-out classical models and extolled the spontaneity and enthusiasm of the writers and thinkers of

According to Joseph Proudhon in the nineteenth century, property was

The Quadruple Alliance, the nations that defeated Napoleon, included

The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819

Why did the idea of a "Greater Germany"-a Germany that would include the German-speaking lands of the Austrian Empire in a national state-fail?

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Children's Stories and Household Tales (Evaluating the Evidence 21.3): "These folktales have kept intact German myths that were thought to be lost, and we are firmly convinced that if a search were conducted in all the hallowed regions of our fatherland, long neglected treasures would transform themselves into fabulous treasures and help to found the study of the origins of our poetry. It works the same way with the many dialects of our language. In them a large part of the words and peculiarities that we had long held to be defunct live on undetected." The Grimms saw folktales as windows into

According to Map 21.1: Europe in 1815, which countries were considered the Great Powers of Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?

According to Map 21.1: Europe in 1815, why was the Austrian Empire able to maintain order in most of Europe between 1815 and 1848?

At the Congress of Vienna, the victorious allies

In their war of independence against the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks ultimately won the support of

According to the doctrine of laissez faire, the government should intervene in

The following excerpt is from the Karlsbad Decrees, a set of policies that clamped down on liberal nationalists in the universities and the press (Evaluating the Evidence 21.1): "The Diet shall have the right, moreover, to suppress on its own authority, without being petitioned, such writings included in Article 1 [newspapers and periodicals], in whatever German state they may appear, as, in the opinion of a commission appointed by it, are inimical to the honor of the union, the safety of individual states, or the maintenance of peace and quiet in Germany. There shall be no appeal from such decisions. . . ." This passage amounts to a sweeping attempt at

Answer the following questions: -Great Famine

Although the revolutions of 1848 took place at roughly the same time and in proximity to one another, in certain ways, they were very different from one another. Compare the causation, participants, goals, and outcomes of the 1848 uprisings in France and Austria. What were the key differences? In what ways were they similar?

Charles Fourier, a utopian socialist, envisioned mathematically precise communities called "phalanxes" and also urged

According to Map 21.2: Peoples of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1815, which nationalities dominated the Habsburg monarchy?

In 1849, the revolution in Hungary was brought under control with the help of 130,000 troops sent by