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- The French Industrial Revolutions combine to initiate a series of changes: Political, Social, Intellectual and Economic.
- These revolutions especially affect European thought, which is then spread throughout the world through imperialism.
- Liberia and Sierra Leone are the only two independent countries in the 1900s, the rest of Africa is under European control
- Romanticism
- primarily literature with popular writers Byron, Keets, and Shelly
- art featuring landscapes of scenes from nature
- movement away form Neo-Classicism and using scientific rationalism
- strong emphasis on undefinable things, nature, and human spirit. Romantics still embrace reason, just not soley
- focuses on the human spirit, emotion, and feeling
- the 19th century witnesses the furtherance of the idea of human individualism or a unique spirit/genius (genie)
- German Herder had the idea that nations with a like background for example german people or american people had something called a Volkgeist (a national spirit) that can be discovered though a study of history. Basically
- Classical Liberalism
- Emerges form Great Britain in the early 19th century. The "Liberals" were mainly from the nouveau riche textile magnates, working class leaders, and merchants.
- Their beliefs included: making constitutions with a strong ruler, for example a constitutional monarchy
- They opposed a full franchise (Universal Male Suffrage), and feared mob rule
- The liked small, responsible governments that protected Lockean ideals like life, liberty, and properties
- wanted low government interference in business with a laissez faire, free trade, low or no tariff
- believed self-reliance and self control the poor should be aided through philanthropy but not through government relief
- oppose labor unions but by the 19000s they embrace them,
- classical liberals were opposed by the old Aristocracy
- they were called tories in GBR
- conservative classical liberals were prevalent in Western Europe and in commercial industrialized regions
- Radicalism
- wanted full Universal Male Suffrage and a constitution
- were against monarchs and established churches
- They saw these two institutions as barriers to immediate radical changed
- They were into the idea of getting right to the root of the problem, which is why they were called radicals √9
- was an intellectual movement led by Jeremy Bentham called utilitarianism
- reform of laws, parliament, clergy and socail institutions. they were pro-education
- Republicansim
- linked closely to the French Revolution and are violently anti-monarchical, anti-clerical
- wanted UMS, a written constitution, very in tune to the Rights of Man
- Outside of France Republicans are mostly in secret clubs and stuff, since outside of France, there are a lot of monarchies
- hated by the conservative reactionaries, closely linked to nationalist movements especially Mazzini and Germany.
- from the intelligentsia in the working class
- Socialism
- Emerged from the Radicals and republicans and working class in 1890
- Wanted civil legal equality of French revolutions to be extended to economics and social classes.
- The earliest socialists were in the Textile Magnates. Robert Owen founds a colony in the US called New Harmony. Another example would be Willy Wonka oopma loompas.
- socialism promotes equal housing , pay, education, and health care where everyone works and shares equally in wealth.
