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Restoration and Revolution, 1815 - 1848
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Congress System❖Congress of Vienna (1815), major powers sought to restore “legitimate” rulers. ❖Period after 1815 is known as the Restoration. ❖Major powers also wanted to establish a “balance of power” and “collective security” against future revolutionary upheavals.
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Congress System❖Period between 1815 and 1848 was characterized by conservatives (slow change), and reactionaries (return to old regime). ❖Restoration meant a return to absolute rule and revival of institutions abolished by French. ❖Spain, King Ferdinand VII abolished the Constitution of 1812.
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Congress System❖Not all rulers aimed to undo the work of the French. ❖Napoleon’s great achievement was the creation of strong centralized states. ❖Victorious powers then established the “Congress system,” to maintain status quo.
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❖November 1815, Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia signed Quadruple Alliance. ❖Agreed to meet periodically to maintain peace. ❖First meeting, September 1818, agreed to end occupation of France and admit it as member of Congress system.
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❖Thus creating a Quintuple Alliance. ❖Conservative monarchies of eastern Europe, Russia, Austria, and Prussia formed Holy Alliance in September 1815. ❖Officially dedicated to the protection of Christian principles of “religion, peace, and justice.” ❖England refused to join.
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❖Spain’s King Ferdinand VII, after series of military revolts, he was forced to bring back the Constitution of 1812, making Spain a constitutional monarchy. ❖1823, French force of 100 000 soldiers entered Spain and made it possible to abolish constitution. ❖1820, revolutionary year in Portugal.
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❖Civil war broke out in Spain, by 1840, resulted in definitive victory for constitutional monarchy. ❖Italian peninsula, uprisings occurred in Kingdom of Naples in 1820.
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❖Posed a threat to Austrian authority. ❖Britain and France opposed intervention by the Congress, but Russia and Prussia backed Austria. ❖Austrian forces crushed the uprising. ❖Governments of small north-central Italy collapsed and government of Papal States found itself in great danger when its army disintegrated.
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❖First successful nationalist revolution took place in Greece. ❖Greeks formed part of the Ottoman Empire. ❖Rebelled in 1821; Greeks were Orthodox Christians fighting Muslim rulers. ❖Greece was considered cradle of Western civilization.
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❖Many believed Greek glory would rise again. ❖English poet Lord Byron went to Greece and joined the independence struggle. ❖Greeks had support of Britain, France and Russia (which saw Greek revolt as opportunity to gain influence in Balkans).
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❖1827, three powers signed a treaty to guarantee Greek independence. ❖Ottomans had no choice and Greece became independent in 1830.
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❖France after 1815: Louis XVIII ruled until his death in 1824 as a constitutional monarch. ❖All people had civil rights and were equal before the law, but political rights were restricted to males of the propertied and landed classes (bourgeoisie).
Restoration of France
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❖His brother, Charles X (1824-1830), issued an edict that dissolved parliament and suspended the freedom of press. ❖Government was overthrown and the king went into exile. ❖Revolution of 1830 confirmed that the people of France still supported the principles of 1789.
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❖New king, Louis Philippe, King of the French, reflected this spirit. ❖The fleur-de-lis was abandoned for the tricolour flag of the Revolution.
Restoration of France
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❖Not a political ideology, but a way of looking at life. ❖Influenced all doctrines and attitudes of the time, including socialism, liberalism, conservatism, and nationalism.
Romanticism
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❖Reaction against the ordered rational mode of thought of the Enlightenment. ❖Romantics emphasized the emotions and truth to be found in feelings and sentiments.
Romanticism
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❖For Romantics, movement and change, ever part of nature, were more important than order and harmony. ❖In England, William Wordsworth (1770-1850), pictured nature as idyllic, beautiful, and ever-changing:
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I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Romanticism
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To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; In much it grieved my heart to think What man had made of man.
Romanticism
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❖Romantics reintroduced religion and mysticism to European intellectual scene. ❖They embraced the unknown and glorified faith based on feelings. ❖Also had a new interest in the Middle Ages.
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❖While Enlightenment thinkers had viewed the Middle Ages with disdain (because life was dominated by the Church and there was little scientific progress), Romantics viewed the Middle Ages as a creative period when true feelings and emotions could find expression, people had a sense of order and community, living close to nature and the soil.
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❖Tradition and custom, which were sneered any in the Enlightenment period, were revered by Romantics because of people’s long adherence to them. ❖Romantics respected established political institutions and the beauty of custom.
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