STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 24:

 

THE CRISIS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE, 1871-1914

 

 

 

TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

 

futurists

impressionists

"Great Depression"

cartel

trust

consortium

James Keir Hardie

Labour Party

Fabians

National Insurance Act of 1911

David Lloyd George

Parliament Bill of 1911

Trade Unions Act of 1913

Black Friday

Social Democrats

Anti-Socialist Law

Revisionism

Eduard Bernstein

Boulanger Affair

Dreyfus Affair

Emile Zola

anti-Semitism

"feminist"

suffragette

Emmeline Pankhurst

Cat and Mouse Act

Zionism

Theodor Herzl

anarchists

Mikhail Bakunin

Petr Kropotkin

anarcho-syndicalists

pogrom

Georges Sorel

Albert Einstein

Louis Pasteur

Georg Mendel

Leopold von Ranke

Alfred Marshall

Sigmund Freud

Le Bon Marché

Hubertine Auclert

Emile Durkheim

birth control

Thorstein Veblen

conspicuous consumption

Kulturkampf

Karl Lueger

Ringstrasse

Otto von Bismarck

Third Republic

Pope Leo XIII

Wilhelm II

“New woman”

xenophobia

Ivan Pavlov

Wilhelm Wundt

Heinrich Schliemann

James Clerk Maxwell

Max Planck

Women’s Social and Political Union

Alfred Binet

Sir Francis Galton

 

 

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

 

Ulster

French Guiana

Panama Canal

Leipzig

Kiev

Odessa

 

 

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

 

1.         What economic and political forces threatened British liberalism in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth century?  How did liberalism change in this period?

 

2.         How did the development of German social democracy differ from the rise of French anarcho-syndicalism?  Why did workers embrace such different radical ideals in the two nations?

 

3.         How was Zionism related to other European forms of nationalism?  How was it different?  Did nationalism strengthen or weaken the status of Jews in Europe?

 

4.         Did feminists and “new women” share a similar vision of womanhood between 1880 and 1914?  How do their goals and methods compare?

 

5.         Is Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, or Emile Durkheim more representative of his age? To what degree are their ideas "modern"?       

 

6.         How did scientific breakthroughs and new approaches to the “scientific” study of society contribute to the development of a “new consciousness” in Europe?