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Chapoter 21: R.R.R.
s.g. terms
| Flterm | def |
|---|---|
| Metternich | leading figure in European government up until 1848 - used legitimacy |
| Edmun Burke | author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, is known to a wide public as a classic political thinker |
| Joseph de Maistre | French polemical author, moralist, and diplomat who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution in 1789, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition. |
| Simon Bolivar | South American soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule |
| Monroe Doctrine | European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas |
| Peterloo | rutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter's Fields in Manchester |
| Burschenschaften | student organization at the German universities that started as an expression of the new nationalism prevalent in post-Napoleonic Europe |
| Decembrist Revolt | an unsuccessful Russian uprising |
| Thomax Malthus | population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. |
| Charles Fourier | French social theorist who advocated a reconstruction of society based on communal associations of producers known as phalanges |
| Flora Tristan | most remembered for her contribution to feminism |
| Louis-Philippe | king of the French from 1830 to 1848; basing his rule on the support of the upper bourgeoisie, he ultimately fell from power because he could not win the allegiance of the new industrial classes. |
| Robert Peel | British prime minister (1834–35, 1841–46) and founder of the Conservative Party. Peel was responsible for the repeal (1846) of the Corn Laws that had restricted imports. |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Genoese propagandist and revolutionary, founder of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy (1832), and a champion of the movement for Italian unity known as the Risorgimento. |
| Goethe | German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. |
| Walter Scott | Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel. |
| J.M.W. Turner | English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. |
| Eugene Delacroix | the greatest French Romantic painter, whose use of colour was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. |
| Beethoven | German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. |