Comparing political revolutions
Shared causes
Different outcomes
Who benefited? Who didn't?
Comparing the political and industrial revolutions
The political revolutions and the Industrial Revolution reinforced each other:
But they could also conflict:
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Nationalism: Unifying and dividing force
Nationalism as liberation
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Nationalism as oppression
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Nationalism and empire
Continuity and change across the period (1750-1900)
What changed
What persisted
Primary sources
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
Simon Bolivar, Address at the Congress of Angostura (1819)
Alexander II, Emancipation Manifesto (Russia, 1861)
Key figures
Key events summary
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Vocabulary
Unit 5 topics
Unit 5 overview5.10Comparison in the Age of Revolutions5.1The Enlightenment5.2Nationalism and Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 19005.3Industrial Revolution Begins5.4Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 19005.5Technology of the Industrial Age5.6Industrialization: Government's Role from 1750 to 19005.7Economic Developments and Their Social Impact in the Period from 1750 to 19005.8Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 19005.9Society and the Industrial Age