The mood of the "Beat Generation" is best reflected in A. Jack Kerouac's <em>On the Road. </em><em />Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr were "founders" of the Beat Generation, a literary and social movement following World War II during the onset of the Cold War. Many of their books dealt with the growing interconnectedness of the world, the nuclear threat of the Cold War (and the futility of the present), and resisting the conformity of the 1950s.
Anarchists and other radicals
The period between 1870 and 1914 saw a Europe that was considerably more stable than that of previous decades. To a large extent this was the product of the formation of new states in Germany and Italy, and political reformations in older, established states, such as Britain and Austria. This internal stability, along with the technological advances of the industrial revolution, meant that European states were increasingly able and willing to pursue political power abroad.
Imperialism was not, of course, a concept novel to the nineteenth century. A number of European states, most notably Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, had carved out large overseas empires in the age of exploration. However, the new technologies of the nineteenth century encouraged imperial growth. Quinine, for instance, allowed for the conquest of inland Africa, whilst the telegraph enabled states to monitor their imperial possessions around the world. When the value of these new technologies became apparent, the states of Europe began to take control of large swathes of territory in Africa and Asia, heralding in a new era of imperialism
The main reason why the Federalists supported the ratification of the Constitution is because "<span>They believed in a strong federal government", since the Articles of Confederation had proven to be far too "weak".</span>
