A History of Western Society: Printed Page 786
A History of Western Society, Value Edition: Printed Page 794
Think about the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.
By 1900 most countries in Europe and North America had established modern nation-states, but the road to nation building varied dramatically from place to place. Which countries were most successful in building viable nation-states? What accounts for the variation?
How and why did the relationship between the state and its citizens change in the last decades of the nineteenth century?
Liberalism, socialism, and nationalism first emerged as coherent ideologies in the decades around 1800 (Chapter 21). How had they changed by 1900?