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Objectives:

1. Outline how the balance of power shifted in the 1850s and 1860s

2. Analyze the motivations and describe the results

3. Describe the types of reforms that governments sponsored at this time and analyze why.

4. Describe developments in literature , the visual arts, and science and evaluate how they are reflections of the era

5. Analyze how Marxism presented itself as a challenge to the modern state.

Topic A: The End of the Concert of Europe

1. Napoleon III and the Quest for French Glory 875-876

2. The Crimean War, 1853–1856: Turning Point in European Affairs 877-879

3. Spirit of Reform in Russia  879-881

Topic B: War and Nation Building

1. Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Process of Italian Unification 881-883

2. Bismarck and the Realpolitik of German Unification 883-887

3. Francis Joseph and the Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 887-888

4. Political Stability through Gradual Reform in Great Britain 888-889

5. Civil War and Nation Building in the United States and Canada 889-891

Topic C: Establishing Social Order

1. Bringing Order to the Cities 891-893

2. Expanding the Reach of Bureaucracy 893-894

3. Schooling and Professionalizing Society 894-895

4. Spreading Western Order beyond the West 895-899

Topic D: The Culture of Social Order

1. The Arts Confront Social Reality 895-899

2. Religion and Secular Order 903-905

3. From Natural Science to Social Science 905-906

Topic E: Contesting the Growing Power of the Nation-State

1. The Rise of Marxism 906-908

2. The Paris Commune versus the French State 908-911