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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... 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 necessary to begin by looking at its climax at the end. This came with ...
... Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary rep- resented the eastern border of Europe. In Sweden the years from 1719 to 1772 are known as the Age of Freedom, be- cause at this time the Diet or Riksdag ruled without interference by the King. In- deed ...
... Poland, the towns had been excluded from the diet as long ago as 1505. In Bohemia about thirty towns had formerly ... Poland and Hungary there were many small nobles, but in all three countries the great nobles or magnates were wealthy ...
... Poland, or during the Freedom Era in Sweden, or in England during the Whiggish generations before 1760, during which very few new peers were created.The class line was also all but impassable in the small German princely states, which ...
... Poland. In both countries parties within the diet looked to foreign aid. In both countries outside powers spent money freely to bribe members ofthe diet in their own inter- est; influential Swedes and Poles regarded such gratuities as ...
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