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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... Rousseau Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762 xiii 13 18 22 25 27 33 35 42 43 58 64 65 75 78 83 84 The Social Contract, 1762 89 The Genevese Revolution of 1768 CONTENTS.
... Rousseau.6 There are nowadays many others for whom Robespierre and Rousseau figure more as ancestors of totalitari- anism than ofdemocracy. It is true that Marx and his followers were close students of the French Revolu- tion, and ...
... Rousseau's view as expressed in the Social Contract. At the most, democracy was a principle, or element, which might profitably enter into a “mixed constitution,” balanced by principles of monarchy and aristocracy, as was believed to be ...
... Rousseau considered the citizens of Geneva and the no- bles of Venice to be much alike. The abbé Morellet, mixing in an Anglo-French reforming circle which included Turgot, Condorcet, Lord Shelburne, Bentham, Priestley, and Price, made ...
... Rousseau, renowned among European intellec- tuals as the model republic, was an independent little place of 25,000 people, in most ways not yet really united with the Swiss confederation.The much-traveled William Coxe thought it halfway ...
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