Lecture 10 Vodcast: The Politics of Reaction

This lecture covers the period from the Congress of Vienna to the revolutions of 1848, primarily as a general overview of the climate of ideas that shaped the period.
Beginning with the influence of Edmund Burke upon the leaders of the Congress of Vienna, it looks in some details at the reasons for the failure of the Congress in the revolutions of 1820 and 1830, the reign of Louis XVIII and Charles X and the Reform Bill of 1832.

Vodcast of Lecture 10: The Politics of Reaction, 1815-1848