HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Total War, Holy Alliance, Antireligion
Document Summary
Defeat of napoleon and peace of the congress of vienna. Conflict changed the territorial, legal and political shape of europe. Leaders went to war against an enemy and some were fighting for something. Fighting for a new system of international relations. 1804 alexander proposed to pitt scheme for universal peace - all states in. Europe be remade to be similar to one another (similar liberal constitutions, discuss disputes) Pitt - internal states governance does not matter as much as the balance of power. Instability in the region of germany major catalyst for war. Pitt is fighting for germany to be organized into larger self sufficient groups of states. Austria prussia russia and uk had to guarantee peace through balance of power and explicit agreement between cooperation of great powers to keep the peace. 1812 alexander changes mindset becomes conservative, pitt is dead, alexander wants to be the leader of the alliance to defeat napoleon cant do it alone.
