UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2014 · Q8(b) · 20 marks
“The language of narrow nationalism held at Frankfurt destroyed the German Revolution; as the fatal idea of aggrandisement of the House of Savoy destroyed the Italian Revolution.” Discuss.
- Chapter
- Nation-State System
- Topic
- Nationalism and the Revolutions of 1848
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