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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... Belgium, Switzer- land, and Italy, but also in Germany, Hungary, and Poland, and by scattered indi- viduals in places like Spain and Russia. THE REVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION To obtain the right perspective on the whole era it is ...
... Belgium, however, that is, the Austrian Netherlands, in the revolt of 1789 against the emperor, the advanced party came to call itself Democrat. By January 1791 its leaders were speaking ofles braves Democrates and les bons Democrates ...
... Belgium in 1790 and 1791. It was probably coined, in France as in Holland or Belgium, in contradis- tinction to “aristocrat.” Ferdinand Brunot, in his tremendous history of the French language, lists two hundred and six nouns and ...
... Belgium. All saw a uniformity of institutions. All had in mind those “constituted bodies” which existed everywhere in the European world, west of Russia. The term is meant to include the British and Irish parliaments, the American II ...
... Belgium-Luxembourg without Liège. They represented not only the clergy and the nobility of the provinces, but also certain gild interests and certain of the Bel- gian cities to the exclusion of others.There were the various overlapping ...
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