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Wiosna Ludów. Wpływ konfliktów politycznych z połowy XIX wieku na późniejsze wydarzenia społeczne
Springtime of the Peoples. Impact of political conflicts in half of the nineteenth century on later social developments

Author(s): Aleksandra Toman
Subject(s): History, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Springtime of the Peoples; democracy; freedom; equality; binar opposites; patriotism; heroism; romanticism

Summary/Abstract: In my article I paid attention to both historical and modern perceptron of the revolutions in XIXth century Europe lands.i accented the national-liberating, unifying and egalitarian aspects of these wars. I wrote about French ‘three glorious days’ on July 1830 when Luois Phillipe Bourbon reigned. I evoked Greek liberation war againsts The Ottoman Empire. I destinated voluminous space for anti-Habsburg uprisings in Austria, in the Hungarian Kingdom and in the Bohemian Kingdom. Later I dealt with the campaign of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II, who was crownem king of united and independent Italy. Then I concentrated on the riots in the German Empire lands, which was changing into constitutional monarchy with difficulties. I presented my suggestions in the matter of the Springtime of the Peoples or the lack of it in the Great Britain and the Imperial Russia. I mentioned November 1830’s Polish uprising against Nicolai the tsar. I tried to value the matter in a rational and revisionist way, so I described both positive and nega-tive aspects of the uprisings. Eventually, I fund they have somehow formed the modern political culture.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 81-112
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Polish