Thursday, October 6, 2011

(4:1) An Age of Ideologies

Conservatives Prefer the Old Order
-Conservatives work together in the Concert of Europe to support the political and social order before the French Revolution
-Conservatives wanted to restore the old order
-Conservatives: if change had to come, it must come slowly

Liberals and Nationalists Seek Change
-Liberals wanted gov't based on written constitutions and separation of powers
-Liberals supported laissez-faire
-Nationalism gave people w/ common heritage sense of identity and goal of own homeland

Central Europe Challenges the Old Order
-the Serbs revolted first in a guerrilla war against Ottomans
-Greeks revolted in 1821 and by 1830 Greece was independed
-Numerous problems erupted in 1820s against the Vienna peace settlement
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