19th century social and cultural terms with which you should have some familiarity:
- Nationalism
- Bourgeoise Respectability
- Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859)
- Orientalism
- Brothers Grimm
- Romanticism
- George Gordon Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
- Realism
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838), Hard Times (1854)
- Honoré Balzac, The Human Comedy (1830s-40s)
- The Oxford Movement
- Luddites
- New Lanark Mills 1786 (UK)
- Mancester (UK)
- Peterloo Massacre 1819 (UK)
- The Sadler Report / The Factory Commission (1833)
- The Factory Acts
- Crystal Palace, 1851
- China Clipper
- The Great Hunger 1844-52 (Ireland)
- Emile Zola, Germinal
Chapter 18:
- Louis Blanc / ‘Organization of Labor’ / National Workshops
- Lamartine, the “arsonist turned fireman” / Second French Republic 1848-52 / Universal Manhood Suffrage / Louis Napoleon
- June Days (civil war in France, 1848)
- Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine
- Kossuth (Hungary): “The magic of liberty is stronger than nationality.”
- the ‘robot’
- The April Laws
- The Congress of Slavs
- Count Cavour / Piedmont / Victor Emanuel II
- Guiseppe Mazzini / Giuseppe Garibaldi
- The Frankfurt Assembly, 1848 / Frankfurt constitution
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Agreement at Olmütz (1850)
- The Crimean War (1853-56) / International Straits Agreement 1841
Chapter 20:
- Kulturkampf
- Center Party / Social Democratic Part (SPD) / Fatherland Party
- Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative Party)/ William Gladstone (Liberal Party)
- Suez Canal
- Treaty of Berlin 1878
- Tsar Alexander II
- Michael Bakunin, ‘Revolutionary Catechism’ / The People’s Will
- Tsar Alexander III
- Odessa / Zionism / Theodor Herzl / First Zionist Congress (1897)
- Ausgleich 1867 / Dual-Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- ‘The Sick Man of Europe’
- Third French Republic
- Dreyfus Affair / Emile Zola / J’accuse
- Jean Jaures
- George Clenenceau
- Joseph Chamberlain
Chapter 21:
- New Imperialism / Berlin Conference 1885
- Cecil Rhodes / Cairo to Capetown Railroad
- Boer War 1899-1902
- Gen. Gordon at Khartoum
- Fabian Society / State Socialism / Sidney and Beatrice Webb
- Labour Party (UK)
- Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) / ‘What is to be Done?’ (1902)
- Bolsheviks / Mensheviks
- SPD (Social Democrats)