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03/03/2009

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Declaration of the Rights of Man
Definition
What: A Fundamental Document of the French Revolution.
 
When: August 26, 1789
 
Where: France
 
Significance: A fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.
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Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy
Definition
What: A Dual-Monarchy
 
When: May 29, 1867
 
Where: Austria-Hungary
 
Significance: The Dual Monarchy established by the Compromise was intended as an interim solution, but it lasted for 50 years until 1918, when it was dissolved in the aftermath of World War I.
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Congress of Vienna
Definition
What: A Conference of Ambassadors of European States
 
When: September, 1814 to June, 1815
 
Where: Vienna
 
Significance: Its objective was to redraw the continent's political map and settle the many other issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Who: Austrian Psychiatrist
 
When: 1856-1939
 
Where: Worldwide
 
Significance: His theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis.
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Maximillien "The Incorruptable" Robespierre
Definition
Who: Best-known Figures of the French Revolution
 
When: 1758-1794
 
Where: France
 
Significance: Influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the Reign of Terror period that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
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The New Woman (la femme nouvelle)
Definition
What: An association
 
When:1934
 
Where: France
 
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Thomas Malthus
Definition
Who: English Political Economist and Demographer.
 
When: 1766-1834
 
Where: England
 
Significance: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
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Estates General
Definition
Who/What:A general assembly consisting of representatives from all but the poorest segment of the French empire. 
 
When: May 5, 1789
 
Where: Versailles, France
 
Significance: The independence from the Crown which it displayed paved the way for the French Revolution.
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The Communist Manifesto
Definition
What: One of the world's most influential political manuscripts.
 
When: February 21, 1848
 
Where: Europe
 
Significance: It was the blueprints to Communism.
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Sergei Aksakov
Definition
Who: Russian Literary Figure
 
When: 1791-1859
 
Where: Russia
 
Significance: Remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of a landlord's family life, hunting, fishing, and butterfly collecting.
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Beyond Good and Evil
Definition
What: Nietzsche's Second Book
 
When: 1886
 
Where: Germany
 
Significance: Attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favor of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.
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Herbert Spencer
Definition
Who: Polymath, English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era.
 
When: 1820-1903
 
Where: England
 
Significance: developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies.
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Olympe de Gouges
Definition
Who: Playwright and Political Activist
 
When: 1748-1793
 
Where: France
 
Significance: Wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791)Beheaded for attacking Robespierre.
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Shooting an Elephant
Definition
What: An essay by George Orwell
 
When: Autumn 1936
 
Where: Britain / Burma
 
Significance: "Shooting an Elephant" means a call to end imperialism.
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The Origin of Species
Definition
What: Darwin. A landmark work in Evolutionary Biology
 
When: November 24, 1859
 
Where: Europe (Published in London)
 
Significance: Natural Selection. Full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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King Louis XVI
Definition

Who: King of France

 

When: 1771-1792, 1792-1793

 

Where: France

 

Significance: Ruled as and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August, he was trialed by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed.

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Liberalism
Definition
What: A Political Philosophy
 
When:
 
Where: Worldwide
 
Significance: Considers individual liberty and equality to be the most important political goals.
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Fall of the Bastille
Definition
What: A Medieval Fortress & Prison
 
When: July 14, 1879
 
Where: Paris, France
 
Significance: Its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution, and it subsequently became an icon of the French Republic
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Nationalism
Definition
What: An ideology, sentiment, culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation.
 
When: Late 18th Century
 
Where: France / Europe
 
Significance: The ideology that fueled the French Revolution.
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Victor Hugo
Definition
Who: A French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
 
When: 1802-1885
 
Where: France
 
Significance: Is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Les Misérables and Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Pan-Slav Congress (June 1848)
Definition
What: Congress with Slavic states
 
When: June 2 - June 12, 1848
 
Where:
 
Significance: It was one of the few times that voices from all Slav populations of Central Europe were heard in one place. The meeting was meant to be a show of resistance to German nationalism in the Slav lands.
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Joseph Mazzini
Definition
Who: Italian Patriot, Philosopher and Politician.
 
When: 1805-1872
 
Where: Italy
 
Significance: His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.
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Frankfurt Parliament (May 1848)
Definition
What: First freely elected parliament for Germany
 
When: May 18, 1848 - May 31, 1849
 
Where: Frankfurt, Germany
 
Significance: Major elements of the Frankfurt Constitution became models for the Wiemar Constitution of 1919 and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of 1949.
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Arnold Ruge
Definition
Who: German Philosopher and Political writer.
 
When: 1802-1880
 
Where: Germany
 
Significance: In the revolutionary movement of 1848, he organized the Extreme Left in the Frankfurt parliament.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition
Who: Political Activist
 
When: 1858-1928
 
Where: United Kingdom
 
Significance: Leader of the British suffragette movement. Widely criticized for her militant tactics.
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Leopold II
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Flora Tristan
Definition
Who: Socialist Writer and Activist
 
When: 1803-1844
 
Where: France
 
Significance: One of the founders of modern feminism.
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Lajpat Rai
Definition
Who: Indian Author,Politician,Leader of Punjab
 
When: 1865-1928
 
Where: India
 
Significance: A leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj.
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Abbe' Gregoire
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Alexander Herzen
Definition
Who: "Father of Russian Socialism"
 
When: 1812-1870
 
Where: Russia / France
 
Significance: Founded the Free Russian Press in London. Wrote about Russian politics.
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