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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... European Languages A Preview of What Follows II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies The Diets of Eastern Europe Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France Parliaments and ...
... Europe and North America. The second was the great revolution of his own times in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ... European historiography and used it to remind Americans that their own political culture, like that of the Communist ...
... Europe, Mexico, the Portuguese empire, South Asia, and the worlds of the Pacific and In- dian Oceans. In light of ... European springtime of 1848). As Palmer expanded horizons in space, so now they need to be extended in time. Almost ...
... Europe during this revolutionary era. This book attempts to bring all these national histories together. It rests heavily ... European languages. In particular I wish to thank my colleague, Profes- sor W. F. Craven of Princeton, for his ...
... Europe,” since the struggle was primarily between a revolutionary French government and the conservative governments and governing classes of Europe,with many French- men opposed to the revolution, and many other Europeans and Americans ...
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