Jackson J. Speilvogel’s Chapter 21 of Western Civilization, Volume II: Since 1877 is titled “Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism”. In this chapter Speilvogel explains different ideologies that emerged at the time, more revolutions due to them, and the romantic movement. In the section “The Conservative Order” it’s said immediately after Napoleon was exiled, people wanted to return to the comfort of conservatism. Conservatism has very strong moral principles, good for the society over the good of the individual, and importance of tradition. Many countries embraced conservatism: France (which had restored another king to the throne), Great Britain, and Italy. Several countries revolted at this time as well, like Latin American countries and Greece. “The…show more content… The French had another revolution where Louis-Philippe was the new head of this bourgeois monarchy. Nationalism had taken hold of the Dutch Republic where the Austrian Netherlands was added. Great Britain was reforming their parliament. Several more revolutions went on after these, Germanic states, France again, the Austrian empire, and Italian states. Speilvogel describes in “The Emergence of Ordered Society” how society was out of control, and what was done to quell it. He says that many police forces have popped up to protect property, arrest people, maintain order, investigate crime, and so on. Crime was rampant due to being poor and miserable, so places started to pass ‘poor laws’ to force people to get jobs. Many prisons came into existence since there were so many people being arrested, these were in America and eventually went to Britain and France. Finally in “Culture in an Age of Reaction and Revolution: The Mood of Romanticism” all of this thinking and rationalizing came about a new movement in the arts: Romanticism. Romanticism is characterized by emotion, imagination, feeling, and
