II. Nations and States (from the middle of the 19th century to 1914)
2. The industrial states between conservative tradition and liberal and
liberal and democratic push
→ Liberal democracy
– popular sovereignty claimed
– voting, majority rule
– liberal democracy, political pluralism
– indirect democracy, parliamentary assemblies
→ Liberalism of industrial states
– political democratization (education, liberalization of the press,
compulsory military service, tax and legal equality, voting rights for
women in Great Britain and the United States)
– social democratization (possible social contestations, strikes,
demonstrations, trade unions)
– liberalism of the Anglo-Saxon countries (United States, bipolarization of
racial segregation, Great Britain, parliamentary monarchy,
censal suffrage, House of Commons, Labour Party, abandonment of the
“laissez faire”)
→ conservative states that aspire to liberalization
– desire for freedom on the part of clergy, police, financiers
– in Russia Alexander II abolished serfdom, economic modernization
– in Germany industrial revolution after unification, role of
Bismarck, William II
Women’s right to vote in the United States
Consult all the fact sheets on the
world from the 19th century to the present day <<
