Unification of Italy
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The Insurgent: Garibaldi and his enemies.
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More than anybody else, it was Giuseppe Garibaldi who eventually managed to get these two apparently irreconcilable forces, Piedmontese expansionism and progressive republicanism, to work together, however uneasily.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi Encourages His Soldiers
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<b>Website name is <i>The History Place</i> --- no editors or publisher are listed (or needed)</b>
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Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian Red Shirts
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With the slogan “a million men with a million guns,” Garibaldi began a furious recruiting campaign aimed at pulling together an army of liberation.
Communist Manifesto
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Modern History Sourcebook: Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844
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Friederich Engels' father was a German manufacturer and Engels worked as his agent in his father's Manchester factory. As a result he combined both real experience of the city, with a strong social conscience. The result was his ~ The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844.
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Engels on the English working-class
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<b>Very difficult to cite correctly! Publication date not available. Author/editor not available. Website name: Modernism</b> --- created by a university professor but no links to other resources.
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Engels in Manchester
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Engels had experienced the nature of the factory system from a young age. He observed the living conditions of the city’s working class, which he described as being worse than that of animals.
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Condition of the Working Class in England - pdf
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The condition of the working-class is the real basis and point of departure of all social movements of the present because it is the highest and most unconcealed pinnacle of the social misery existing in our day.
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Condition of the Working Class in England -- digital access
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The condition of the working-class is the real basis and point of departure of all social movements of the present because it is the highest and most unconcealed pinnacle of the social misery existing in our day.
Unification of Germany
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Otto von Bismarck
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Germany became a modern, unified nation under the leadership of the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), who between 1862 and 1890 effectively ruled first Prussia and then all of Germany.
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Otto von Bismarck: a brief guide to the ‘founder of modern Germany’
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As a Prussian politician, Otto von Bismarck transformed a collection of small German states into the German empire, his style of rule later gaining him the nickname the ‘Iron Chancellor’.
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Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
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As 'chancellor' of the new Germany, Bismarck concentrated on building a powerful state with a unified national identity. His targets included the Catholic Church and the spread of socialism.
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How Did Bismarck Do It?
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The creation of the modern unified German state in January 1871 constitutes the greatest diplomatic and political achievement of any leader of the last two centuries; but it was effected at a huge personal and political price.
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Otto von Bismarck
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Bismarck was motivated to introduce social insurance in Germany both in order to promote the well-being of workers in order to keep the German economy operating at maximum efficiency, and to stave-off calls for more radical socialist alternatives.
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The Policy of Otto von Bismarck: Preserving Peace in Europe?
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Otto von Bismarck, "The Iron Chancellor,” led Germany to unification following a series of battles known as the Wars of German Unification, preserving peace in Europe for almost two decades.
Ottoman Empire
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Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell
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Though the Ottoman Empire persisted for 600 years, it succumbed to what most historians describe as a long, slow decline, despite efforts to modernize.
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Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell
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It would take a world war to end the Ottoman Empire for good... More than two thirds of the Ottoman military became casualties during World War I, and up to 3 million civilians died.
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The Rise of Nationalism and the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
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This is a teaching guide for the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Links and embedded materials may be useful.
India & Pakistan
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Fourteen Points of Quaid-i-Azam [Mohammed Ali Jinnah]
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Jinnah presented his proposal in the form of Fourteen Points, insisting that no scheme for the future constitution of the government of India will be satisfactory to the Muslims until and unless stipulations were made to safe guard their interests.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Although faced with the challenge of uniting a vast population diverse in culture, language and religion, he successfully established various economic, social and educational reforms that earned him the respect and admiration of millions
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Has India fulfilled any of the goals Jawaharlal Nehru envisaged for it?
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In essence, Nehru's goals were uncomplicated. ...He tried to accelerate the historical processes: to achieve within the space of decades what had taken other nations centuries; to modernise a feudal society; to industrialise a rural country; and to mould a fragmented quilt of princely states into a 20th century nation state.
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Nehru's vision of a new India
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Being a firm believer in the principle of non-alignment, Nehru was naturally shocked ..... Emphasising that the country's defence depended more on its morale than on weapons, he made out a case for resolving contentious issues between India and Pakistan ...
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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<b>Website: PBS</b> -- In August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru assumed the role of ... the first prime minister of a newly independent India. The approach Nehru articulated grew out of his view of the modem world and his belief in its technology, combined with his confrontation with the realities of Indian society
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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin
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Islam gave the Muslims of India a sense of identity; dynasties like the Mughals gave them territory; poets like Allama Iqbal gave them a sense of destiny. Jinnah's towering stature derives from the fact that, by leading the Pakistan movement and creating the state of Pakistan, he gave them all three. For the Pakistanis he is simply the Quaid-i-Azam or the Great Leader.
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The Muslim League and Jinnah
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The All India Muslim League and its leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah drove the campaign to establish the Muslim nation of Pakistan. Historian Ian Talbot charts the development of the League from its founding in 1906 to its legacy after Partition.
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Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's achievement as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years. Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields were many, if not equally great.
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At 75, Pakistan has moved far from the secular and democratic vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, sought to create a democratic, egalitarian and secular country where the Muslims of the subcontinent, who constituted about 25% of the population, could enjoy full equality.