Social Science
The Making of Nationalism in Europe (Aristocracy, New Middle Class, Liberal Nationalism)
Practice questions
Why did the aristocracy remain influential in nineteenth-century Europe despite being numerically small?Why can the aristocracy be called a class connected beyond national boundaries?What was the social meaning of using French among the European aristocracy?How was the shared culture of the aristocracy different from nationalism?Why did the middle class lead nationalist ideas even though most Europeans were peasants?How did the rise of the new middle class challenge the old social order?Industrialisation strengthened nationalism indirectly through which social medium?Why did merchants and industrialists want national unity from an economic point of view?Why were individual freedom and national unity placed together in liberal nationalism?What was the basic conflict between political liberalism and autocratic rule?Why was the idea of equality before law threatening to the old society?Why cannot liberal nationalism be called complete democracy?Property-based suffrage shows which internal contradiction of liberalism?What does the exclusion of women in nineteenth-century liberalism show?Why was free movement of goods and capital linked with national unity in economic liberalism?How did customs barriers of small states give rise to the economic demand for nationalism?Why is Zollverein considered not only an economic institution but also a step toward nationalism?What was the effect of Zollverein's currency reform on trade?How did the development of railways speed up the making of a national market?Which statement correctly connects the economic and political demands of liberalism?