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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... Switzerland 269 Reflections on the Foregoing 274 XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 280 Joseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above 281 Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack 289 Three Charters of the North 299 XIII ...
... 508 513 517 522 527 530 531 533 536 544 544 554 563 568 569 573 578 585 589 590 597 600 603 609 614 617 623 629 635 642 643 648 655 XXVIII.The Helvetic Republic 663 Switzerland before 1798 663 Geneva: Revolution x Contents.
... Switzerland before 1798 663 Geneva: Revolution and Annexation 666 The Swiss Revolutionaries 669 Swiss Unity vs. External Pressures 672 Internal Stresses in the Helvetic Republic 678 XXIX. Germany: The Revolution of the Mind 684 The ...
... Switzerland, the constitution of the Helvetic Republic, which was pro- claimed by the French in 1798, declared in its Article II that “the form ofgovern- ment, whatever modifications it may undergo, shall at all times be a ...
... Switzerland and Italy. All were different, yet all were in some ways alike. To obtain a comparative view of these bodies has been a recognized problem of European historical research in recent years. There is a permanent committee of ...
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