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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... Lord Shelburne, Bentham, Priestley, and Price, made much the same criticisms of the parlements of France and the parliament of Great Britain. Kaunitz, commenting on difficulties between the Hapsburg government and the diet of Bohemia ...
... Lord, “Parlia- ments of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period,” in Catholic HistoricalReview (July 1930), 125–44; O. Hintze, “Typologie der standischen Verfassungen des Abendlandes,” in Historische Zeitschrift (1929), 229–48; L ...
... lords in England. In Bohemia the Hapsburgs had set up the Catholic clergy as a First Estate, but the predominance ... Lord, Second Partition ofPoland (Cambridge, Mass., 1915); R. J. Kerner, Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century (N.Y. ...
... Lords, and Commons. As Blackstone put it, the King sat in Parliament with “the three estates of the realm,” the higher clergy, nobility, and commons; they and the King constituted “the great corporation or body politic of the kingdom ...
... Lords and Commons.The Lords consisted of 142 temporal peers and 22 Anglican bishops, though the population was of course mainly Catholic. The Commons consisted of 300 members from counties and boroughs, as in England; some of the ...
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