Sources for Western Society: Printed Page 385

COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. Question

    How might Asproni (Document 23-2) interpret the image of Mazzini and Garibaldi’s first meeting (Document 23-1)?

  2. Question

    What connections can you make between nationalism and the resurgence of conservatism in the second half of the nineteenth century? What light do the documents by Asproni (Document 23-2), Leighton (Document 23-4), and Bismarck (Document 23-3) shed on this question?

  3. Question

    What picture of French politics in the decades following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War is painted in the documents by Leighton (Document 23-4) and Zola (Document 23-5)? What connections can you make between the suppression of the Paris Commune and the Dreyfus affair?