Romanticism and Revolt: Europe, 1815-1848

There are few periods in history which bring into relief so strikingly as the years between 1815 and 1848 the fact that each period is no more than a station in the historical process.
During the age of Romanticism and revolt the trauma of the French Revolution worked itself out in the texture of the developments stimulated by the Industrial Revolution, though the solutions formulated by contemporaries were put to the test at a later period and were realized. if at all, in a manner very different from the one originally envisaged.