The Conservative Order
The Concert of Europe
Congress of Vienna
Prince Klemens von Metternich
New balance of power
Germanic Confederation
Napoleon’s escape from Elba
Conservative Domination:
Ideology of Conservatism
From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution of France
Obedience to political authority
Organized religion was crucial to social order
Hated revolutionary upheavals
Unwilling to accept liberal demands or representative government
Principle of Intervention
Quadruple Alliance
Allied intervention in Spain and Italy
Latin American, Greek Revolts
Revolt in Latin America
Bourbon monarchy of Spain toppled
Latin American countries begin declaring independence
Simón Bolivar (1783-1830)
José de San Martín (1778-1850)
Britain began to dominate Latin American economy
The Greek Revolt, 1821-1832
Intervention could support revolution as well
Greek revolt in, 1820
Britain, France, Russia at war
Treaty of Adrianople, 1829
Conservative Domination:
The European States
Great Britain: Rule of the Tories
Landowning classes dominate Parliament
Tory and Whig factions; Tories dominate
Restoration of France
Intervention in the Italian States and Spain
Central Europe, the German Confederation
Austrian Empire
Russia
Rural, agricultural, and autocratic
Alexander I (1801-1825)
Nicholas I (1825-1855)
Ideologies of Change
Liberalism
Economic liberalism (classical economics)
Laissez-faire
Political liberalism
Ideology of political liberalism
David Ricardo (1772-1823),
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Supported Women’s rights
On the Subjection of Women
Nationalism
Part of a community with common institutions, traditions, language, and customs
The community is called a “nation”
Nationalist ideology
Allied with liberalism
Ideologies of Change (cont.)
Early Socialism
Early socialism (utopian societies)
Robert Owen (1771-1858)
New Lanark, Scotland
New Harmony, Indiana
Frances Wright, Nashoba, Tennessee
Louis Blanc
Flora Tristan
Revolution and Reform, 1830-1850
The Revolutions of 1830
Charles X (1824-1830)
Revolt by liberals
Louis-Philippe (1830-1848)
The bourgeois monarch
Constitutional changes favor the upper bourgeoisie
Roll of nationalism
Austrian Netherlands given to Dutch Republic
Revolt by the Belgians
Revolt attempts in Poland and Italy
Revolts led to reform in Britain
The Revolutions of 1848
Another French Revolution
Scandals, graft, corruption, and failure to initiate reform
Louis-Philippe abdicates, February 24, 1848
Provisional government established
Elections to be by universal manhood suffrage
National workshops
Growing split between moderate and liberal republicans
Second Republic established
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected in December, 1848
Revolution in Central Europe
French revolts led to promises of reform
Frederick William IV (1840-1861)
Frankfurt Assembly
Austrian Empire
Louis Kossuth, Hungary
Metternich flees the country
Hungary’s wishes granted
Concessions will led to greater demands
Francis Joseph I (1848-1916)
Revolts in the Italian States
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
Young Italy, 1831
Goal: a united Italy
Cristina Belgioioso (1808-1871)
1848 revolutions
Rebellions began in Sicily
Rulers promised reforms
Charles Albert (1831-1849) calls for war against Austria
Revolutions ended in failure
The Maturing of the United States
The American Constitution contained forces of liberalism and nationalism
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), Federalist
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Republican
Effects of War of 1812
John Marshall (1755-1835)
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), Democracy
Emergence of an Ordered Society
New Police Forces
Serjents
British Bobbies
Schutzmannschaft
Prison Reform
Walnut Street Prison, Petite Roquette, Pentonville
The Mood of Romanticism
Emotion, sentiment, and inner feelings
Tragic figure
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
The Sorrows of the Young Werther
Individualism
Interest in the past
Grimm Brothers
Hans Christian Andersen
Walter Scott
Gothic literature
Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849)
Mary Wallstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Experimentation with drugs
Romantic Poets and the Love of Nature
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Prometheus Unbound
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The mysterious force of nature
Romanticism in Art and Music