Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism,

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Chapter 21

• Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism,
• 1815 - 1850

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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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• 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

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Europe after the Congress of Vienna
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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

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

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Latin America in the early 9th Century
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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

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• 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)

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

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The Balkans by 1830
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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 Womens rights
• On the Subjection of Women

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

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Map 21.3 The Distribution of Language in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Early Socialism

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

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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

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Revolutionary Outbursts in Belgium, Poland, and
Italy

• Austrian Netherlands given to Dutch Republic
• Revolt by the Belgians
• Revolt attempts in Poland and Italy

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The Revolution of 1830
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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)

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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

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The Revolutions of 1848 1849
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Revolution in Central Europe

• Spreads French inspired
• Frederick William IV (1840-1861)
• Frankfurt Assembly
• Austrian Empire
• Louis Kossuth, Hungary
• Metternich flees the country
• Hungarys wishes granted
• Francis Joseph I (1848-1916)

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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)

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The Failures of 1848

• Division within the revolutionaries
• Radicals and liberals
• Divisions among nationalities

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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 

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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

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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)

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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 Harolds Pilgrimage
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• The mysterious force of nature

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Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Gazing at
the Moon
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Delacroix, The Death of Sardanaplus
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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.

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Web Links

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