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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... Russian Charter of Nobility, 1785 801 2.The Prussian General Code, 1791 802 3.The Swedish Act ofUnion and Security, 1789 805 4.The Polish Constitution of 1791 805 5.The Hungarian Coronation Oath of 1790 806 6. The Brabant Declaration of ...
... Russian; Dr. Peter F. Sugar for assistance in Hungarian; and my former students at Princeton, now widely dispersed, Messrs. Immo Stabreit, Demetrios Pentzopou- los, Thomas H. Kean, Elie Zilkha, and John W. Shy, and Drs. Stanley Mellon ...
... Russian Ambassador, who “was very po- lite,” and on meeting a woman and her two daughters who were all countesses he was introduced with all his “titles,”which he thought most people believed to be hereditary. He was then paired with a ...
... Russia. THE REVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION To obtain the right perspective on the whole era it is necessary to ... Russian found that the “charm of revolution” had penetrated “deep into Siberia.” 3 The present section draws heavily ...
... (Russian Society and the French Revolution,1789–1794) (Moscow, 1956), 61 (I am indebted to Mr. W. L. Blackwell for reading this work in Russian for me); A. P. Whitaker, The Mississippi Question 1795–1803 (New York, 1934), 155; W ...
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