The French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna 1814-1815
Which political philosophy was overthrown and converted into an -ism during the French Revolution. * Conservatism: the conservatives wanted to uphold the traditional ways of government
Liberalism
Liberalism was more closely connected to the spirit and outlook of the enlightenment than to any of the other isms of the early 19th century.
Liberalism was reformist and political rather than revolutionary in character.
Nationalism
In order to be a nation state, you need to have the following * A group of people that living in same geographical area, same culture, history, language, religion, and are united under a single government.
Nationalism as loyalty to one’s nation, did not originate in the early 19th century. Men and women have been fighting for, and living and dying for, their respective countries for hundreds of years.
Romanticism
Romanticism had to build up people nationalism. It emphasized imagination, emotion and passion. Romanticism was primarily a theory of literature and art. “As a theory of art it raised basic questions on the nature of significant truth, on the importance of various human faculties, on the relation of thought and feeling, on the meaning of the past and of the time itself.
Key aspects
- Appealed to emotion rather than to reason (truth and virtue can be found just as surely by the heart as by the head)
The first treaty of Paris
May 1813
Previsions
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- Vacan retain their borders as 1792
- They were allowed to retain all the art treasures that they eluted from conquered countries.
These previsions were confirmed in the Congress of Vienna
Royal patriots
In 1815 only three nation states existed * France * Spain * Great Britain
East was composed of three empires * Russian Empire * Ottoman Empire * Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Austrian-Hungarian Empire – composed of different nationalities and Austria was the most dominant nationality
Which political philosophy was overthrown and converted into an -ism during the French Revolution. * Conservatism: the conservatives wanted to uphold the traditional ways of government
Liberalism
Liberalism was more closely connected to the spirit and outlook of the enlightenment than to any of the other isms of the early 19th century.
Liberalism was reformist and political rather than revolutionary in character.
Nationalism
In order to be a nation state, you need to have the following * A group of people that living in same geographical area, same culture, history, language, religion, and are united under a single government.
Nationalism as loyalty to one’s nation, did not originate in the early 19th century. Men and women have been fighting for, and living and dying for, their respective countries for hundreds of years.
Romanticism
Romanticism had to build up people nationalism. It emphasized imagination, emotion and passion. Romanticism was primarily a theory of literature and art. “As a theory of art it raised basic questions on the nature of significant truth, on the importance of various human faculties, on the relation of thought and feeling, on the meaning of the past and of the time itself.
Key aspects
- Appealed to emotion rather than to reason (truth and virtue can be found just as surely by the heart as by the head)
The first treaty of Paris
May 1813
Previsions
-
- Vacan retain their borders as 1792
- They were allowed to retain all the art treasures that they eluted from conquered countries.
These previsions were confirmed in the Congress of Vienna
Royal patriots
In 1815 only three nation states existed * France * Spain * Great Britain
East was composed of three empires * Russian Empire * Ottoman Empire * Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Austrian-Hungarian Empire – composed of different nationalities and Austria was the most dominant nationality