HST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gain Capital, Crop Rotation, Joseph De Maistre
16 Mar 2017
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Congress of vienna (1814-15) after napoleon"s first abdication main principles regarding goals and planning future actions: legitimacy, compensation, balance of power. Compensating the victors post-war, victors (gb, a, p, r) take from losers in question (france) * territory taken and divvied, was not that of france. * wanted to claim territories for the empire. * cape colony of south africa from dutch settlers. * caribbean islands: st. lucia, trinidad & tobago from france. * spanish netherlands turned into belgium and given away. * acquires land along rind/rine river and expands its south (and gains some of. Balance of power wanting to prevent repeating historical mistakes. Reducing france in size as well as. Creating powerful states in europe to balance out france"s power. Acting on principle of legitimacy attempts to restore 18c. Prevention of future war though rearrangement of states and balance of power.
