Please go to Chapter 21 of your online textbook and read the section entitled 21.1 The Conservative Order (1815–1830), paying close attention to the primary source excerpt entitled Memoirs by Klemens von Metternich.
What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe, and how successful were they in achieving those goals? Based on Metternich’s discussion, how would you define conservatism? What experience obviously conditioned Metternich’s ideas? Was Metternich and early nineteenth-century conservatism merely a reaction to the events of the French Revolution? Why or why not? Based on this selection, discuss the actual policies Metternich would have wanted his government to pursue.
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