The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated EditionFor the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. |
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... Belgian, and Swiss 242 The Dutch Patriot Movement 243 The Belgian Revolution 256 A View of Switzerland 269 Reflections on the Foregoing 274 XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 280 Joseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above ...
... Belgians, Dutch, Irish, and many others have provided a wealth of materials on their respective histories at the time.The years from 1763 to 1800 have always been a staple of American historiography. But the work has been carried on in ...
... Belgian revolution of 1789–1791. We find aristocraten used by Dutch burghers as early as 1784. The Rotterdam patrician, van Hogendorp, writing in the French language in 1786, declares that his country is troubled by a cabal. “People say ...
... Belgian Netherlands and the princely states of the Holy Roman Empire, the diets of Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Bohemia, and the councils of the German free cities and the city-states of Switzerland and Italy. All were different, yet ...
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