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Chapter 21

Chapter 21. Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815 - 1850. The Conservative Order (1815 – 1830). The Peace Settlement Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia Congress of Vienna (1814 – 1815) The principal of legitimacy A new balance of power.

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Chapter 21

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  1. Chapter 21 Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815 - 1850

  2. The Conservative Order (1815 – 1830) • The Peace Settlement • Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia • Congress of Vienna (1814 – 1815) • The principal of legitimacy • A new balance of power

  3. Conservative Ideology • 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

  4. Europe after the Congress of Vienna

  5. Conservative Domination: The Concert of Europe • The Concert of Europe - Congresses • Quintuple Alliance • Principle of intervention • Spain and Italy • The Revolt of Latin America • Bourbon monarchy of Spain toppled • L. A.countries begin independence • Simón Bolivar (1783-1830) • José de San Martín (1778-1850) • Britain began to dominate L. A. economy

  6. The Greek Revolt, 1821-1832 • Intervention could support revolution as well • Greek revolt in, 1820 • Britain, France, Russia at war • Treaty of Adrianople, 1829

  7. Latin America in the early 9th Century

  8. Conservative Domination: The European States • Great Britain: Rule of the Tories • Landowning classes dominate Parliament • Tory and Whig factions; Tories dominate • Restoration in France • Louis XVIII (r. 1814 – 1824) • Ultraroyalists

  9. Intervention in the Italian States and Spain • Conservative reaction against the forces of nationalism and liberalism • Repression in Central Europe • Metternich and forces of reaction • Liberal and national movements in Germany • Karlsbad Decrees (1819)

  10. Russia • Rural, agricultural, and autocratic • Alexander I (1801-1825) • Nicholas I (1825-1855

  11. The Balkans by 1830

  12. 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

  13. Nationalism • Part of a community with common institutions, traditions, language, and customs • The community is called a “nation” • Nationalist ideology • Allied with liberalism

  14. Map 21.3: The Distribution of Language in Nineteenth-Century Europe

  15. Early Socialism • Utopian Socialists • Charles Fourier (1772 – 1838) • Robert Owen (1771-1858) • Louis Blanc (1813 – 1882) • Female Supporters • Flora Tristan (1803 – 1844)

  16. Revolution and Reform, 1830-1850 • Another French Revolution • Charles X (1824-1830) • Revolt by liberals • Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) • The bourgeois monarch • Constitutional changes favor the upper bourgeoisie

  17. Revolutionary Outbursts in Belgium, Poland, and Italy • Austrian Netherlands given to Dutch Republic • Revolt by the Belgians • Revolt attempts in Poland and Italy

  18. The Revolution of 1830

  19. Reform in Great Britain • The Reform Act of 1832 • New political power for industrial urban communities • Benefited the upper middle class • New Reform Legislation • Poor Law of 1834 • Repeal of the Corn Laws (1846)

  20. The Revolutions of 1848 • France Revolution • Corruption, and failure to initiate reform • Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2/24/1848  • Provisional government established • Elections by univ. manhood suffrage • Split between mod. and liberal republicans • Second Republic established • Louis Napoleon Bonaparte elected 12/48

  21. The Revolutions of 1848 – 1849

  22. Revolution in Central Europe • Spreads – French inspired • Frederick William IV (1840-1861) • Frankfurt Assembly • Austrian Empire • Louis Kossuth, Hungary • Metternich flees the country • Hungary’s wishes granted • Francis Joseph I (1848-1916)

  23. Revolts in the Italian States • Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) • Young Italy, 1831 • Goal: a united Italy • Cristina Belgioioso (1808-1871) • Charles Albert (r. 1831 – 1849)

  24. The Failures of 1848 • Division within the revolutionaries • Radicals and liberals • Divisions among nationalities

  25. Maturing of the United States • Constitution contained liberalism and nationalism • Alexander Hamilton-Federalist • Thomas Jefferson-Republican • John Marshall (1755-1835) • Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) and democracy 

  26. Emergence of an Ordered Society • Development of regular police - purpose of police • British Bobbies • “Bobbies” introduced in 1829 – 1830 • French Police • Crime and Social Reform • New poor laws • Moral reformers • Organized religion • Prison Reform

  27. The Characteristics of Romanticism • Emotion, sentiment, and feelings, nature • Tragic figure • Johann von Goethe (1749-1832), • The Sorrows of the Young Werther • Individualism • Interest in the past • Grimm Brothers – German History? Gothic literature • Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849) • Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

  28. Romanticism in Art, Music, Poetry • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Prometheus Unbound • Casper David Friedrich • God and nature • Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) • Passion for color • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) • Lord Byron (1788-1824) • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) • The mysterious force of nature

  29. Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon

  30. Delacroix, The Death of Sardanaplus

  31. Discussion Questions • What were the goals of the early nineteenth-century conservatives? What forces were working against the achievement of those goals? • Why did Britain involve itself in the Greek revolt against the Ottoman Empire? • How did liberalism and nationalism contribute to both the success and failure of reform in the mid-nineteenth century? • Why did the Revolutions of 1848 fail? • Compare and contrast the Romantic and Enlightenment views of nature.

  32. Web Links • 1832 Reform Act • Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions • Utopian Socialism Archive • William Wordsworth: The Complete Poetical Works • The Walter Scott Digital Archive

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