Friday, June 20, 2008
The History Hour
Little Wars between Great Powers, 1854 to 1866
The topic is war, and the place is Europe, in a 12-year period -- 1854 to 1866. The Anglo-French Crimean War against Russia, the Italian War of Liberation 1859 - 1861, the Danish-German War of 1864, and the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Why did the Great Powers end a 39-year spell of peace among the Great Powers from 1815 to 1854? and how did the wars prepare for a new period of peace from 1871 to 1914? America's rise to become a Great Power in its civil war, and its Mexican war, is noted. Three Historians of England who are Marxists are profiled: Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson, and E. Hobsbawm. In this episode of The History Hour, Jeanes does not speak about consciousness or religion.
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