Title: What Caused the 1848 Revolutions?
Headings: What Caused the 1848 Revolutions?
What Caused the 1848 Revolutions?
Get Help With Your Essay
Bibliography
Cite This Work
DMCA / Removal Request

Content: it could be argued this was due to the Rhine-crisis. The Rhine-crisis of 1840 was a threat from France of a likely invasion to take over the rhine land. After the congress of Vienna in 1815 the Rhine was given back to the Prussian military to control. However, after a diplomatic defeat France were adamant to take back control over the Rhine as their natural border. This created huge popularity between France and Germany which led to a widespread ideology of nationalism emerging within both countries. James M. Brophy argues in his book ‘The Journal of Modern History’, the Rhine-crisis unleashed the “breakthrough of modern German nationalism as a phenomenon” [4]. German nationalism was the idea to unite all German speaking nations under the influence of a sole German nation. During 1848, German nationalism was on an all-time high. It could also be argued, nationalism was driven by liberalism which makes the argument, the 1848 revolutions were caused by heterodox ideologies. In Germany, nationalists split into two groups which were the liberal nationalists who were headed by scientists, doctors, physicians and then you had the radicals.