Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nationalism and the creation of Italy

 is an idea of social movement that focuses on the nationItaly like before  After the Congress 

of Vienna in 1815, Austria ruled the 

Italian provinces of Venetia and 

Lombardy in the north, and several 

small states. In the south, the Spanish 

Bourbon family ruled the Kingdom of 

the Two Sicilies.

between 1815 and 

1848, increasing numbers of Italians 

were no longer content to live under 

foreign rulers.


In 1832, an Italian named Giuseppe Mazzini 

organized a nationalist group 

called Young Italy.Mazzini briefly headed a republican government at Rome. He believed that 

nation-states were the best hope for social justice, democracy, and peace in Europe. rebellions 1848 in Italy as they did elsewhere in Europe. The former rulers of the Italian states drove Mazzini and other nationalist leaders into exile.


In 1852, Sardinia’s King Victor Emmanuel II named Count Camillo di Cavour as his prime minister. Cavour’s major goal was to get control of northern Italy for Sardinia. He 

carefully went about achieving this territorial goal through diplomacy and cunning. Cavour realized that the greatest roadblock to annexing northern Italy was Austria. To 

help him expel the Austrians from the north, Cavour found an ally in France. In 1858,the French emperor Napoleon III agreed to help drive Austria out of the northern provinces of Lombardy and Venetia. Cavour soon after provoked a war with Austria. A combined French-Sardinian army won two quick victories against Austria. Sardinia succeeded in taking over all of northern Italy, except Venetia.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Simón Bolívar and Latin American Revolutions

 Simon Bolivar so famous because he liberate Spanish rule. On his way back to South America he went to the United States to study their government. He gather a revolutionary army to fight the Spanish army. He fought the independence of Venezuela,ColombiaEcuadorPanamaPeru, and Bolivia and is revered as a national hero in them.File-Simón_Bolívar_2.jpg    

Thursday, October 1, 2009

John Locke the Enlightenment

John Locke is one of thinker Enlightenment & an English philosopher. he believ all man  life, liberty &the property  jefferson when he wrote the U.S. Constitution he relate to John Locke. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence and as well as the American revolutionaries