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Think about the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.
Why did the ideas of the romantic movement so easily support reformist and radical political ideas, including liberalism, republicanism, and nationalism? What does this reveal about the general connections between art and politics?
How did the spread of radical ideas and the movements for reform and revolution explored in this chapter draw on the “unfinished” political and industrial revolutions (Chapters 19 and 20) of the late 1700s?
The years between 1815 and 1850 witnessed the invention of a number of new political ideologies and the application of these ideologies in a variety of struggles for political power. What impact would these ideologies and struggles have later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Do they still have an impact today?