Lecture 6: Cultural, Social, and Political Transformations 

I.               Announcements and Review

A.    Announcements

1.     Midterm study guide will be available this week

2.     We will not be reading the Fanny Lewald selection this week

B.    Review

C.    Questions

1.     what is the relationship between the ideologies of the early 19th century and industrialization?

2.     what is the relationship between the historical changes of the first half of the nineteenth century and industrialization?

3.     what was a bigger influence in early 19th century Europe:  Napoleon, industrialization, or the French Revolution?

4.     what characterized middle class and working class culture in 19th century Europe? What is the relationship between the rise of these classes and industrialization?

5.     Why do the middle classes embrace a certain set of ideologies, while the working classes embrace another?

6.     what kinds of political transformations did Europeans experience during the first half of the 19th century?  How were the political challenges of the 1830s and 1848 different from those of the 18th century?

II.             Middle Class Ideologies, Middle Class Movements

A.    Middle Class Culture

1.     Consumption and wealth

2.     subculture of youth

3.      public education

4.     Separate spheres

5.     concern with social problems

6.     Development of new ideologies

B.    Middle Class Ideologies

1.     Romanticism

2.     Conservatism 

a.     ideology

b.     Examples

3.     utilitarianism

4.     Liberalism

a.     economic program

b.     political and social program

c.     examples

5.     Nationalism

III.           Working Classes

A.    Introduction

B.    Movements for change

1.     creation of labor organizations

2.     Chartism

3.      use of violence

4.     socialism: 

a.     early socialists

b.     early communism

c.     Marxism

5.     Marxism

C.    Working Class Culture

 

Questions for Lecture and Section

1.     how did the different classes come about?  In what way were these new inventions?

2.     what is romanticism? Nationalism? Conservativism? Liberalism? Socialism?

3.     Who was Goethe?  What is the poem Ò ÒThe Erkling about?  Is it an example of romanticism?  Why or why not?

4.     If you were to look at a map of Europe at this time, what countries would you identify as having liberal rulers?  Conservative rulers?  Which areas are most influenced by nationalism?  By industrial change?  By working class demands?

5.     What is the essential argument in The Communist Manifesto?  Why was this deemed so radical in its time?

TERMS

Separate spheres

Romanticism

Goethe

Mary Shelley

Conservatism 

Edmund Burke

Congress of Vienna

Metternich

King Frederick William III; King Frederick William IV

Louis XVIII

Emperor Nicholas I

Liberalism

Jeremy Bentham

Corn Laws

Polish revolts of 1830

House of Commons

Reform Bill in 1832

Nationalism

Carlsbad decrees

Strike

Chartism

PeopleÕs Charter ( 1838)

Luddism

Early socialists

Utopians

Robert Owen

Claude Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) and Charles Fourier (1772-1832)

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

The Conditions of the Working Class

Marxism

The Communist Manifesto

Domesticity

diaspora