Download Politics/Ideas to 1830

Politics/Ideas to 1830
Political Ideologies
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Conservatism
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Liberalism
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Socialism
Conservatism
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Pro-tradition, antirevolutionary
Champions of monarchy,
aristocracy, church
Dominant in government
to 1830
Edmund Burke
Klemens von Metternich
Conservatism (2)
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Concert of Europe
designed to prevent
revolutions anywhere
in Europe
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Italy
Spain
Burschenschaften and
Carlsbad Decrees
“Peterloo”
Liberalism
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Individual is an end in
himself
Government is a
necessary evil
Argued for freedom of
speech, press
Laissez-faire economics
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Adam Smith
David Ricardo
Liberalism (2)
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Greek revolt vs. Ottoman Empire
“Great Reform Bill” of 1832
July Revolution (1830)
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Bourbon king Charles X
Louis Philippe and July Monarchy
Belgium
Socialism
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Believed inequality of wealth was immoral
Goal to improve conditions of working
class
Different means suggested
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Charles Fourier—agricultural communes
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon—abolish property
Robert Owen—higher wages (New Lanark)
Romanticism
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Dominant cultural movement, 1800-1850
Reaction to Enlightenment rationalism
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Emotion and subjectivity
Destruction of artistic forms
Revival of religion
Veneration of the remote past
Not tied to any specific political view