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‘Most of the European Revolutions of 1848 were nationalist as well as popular insurrections against foreign rule and repressive policy of Metternich’. Comment.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

The Revolutions of 1848, often called the "Spring of Nations," carried a distinctly nationalist charge directed squarely at the Metternich system of foreign domination and suppression.

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  • Italy: Revolt Against Austrian Domination
  • The Habsburg Lands: Multiple Nationalities Against Vienna
  • The German States: Nationalism Against a Fragmented, Austrian-Overseen Order
  • Popular as Well as Nationalist: The Social Dimension

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