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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... estates of the realm, in France as clergy, nobility, and Third Estate. The constituted bodies did in fact often call themselves “orders” or “estates.” Most of them had in fact originated in the Middle Ages. Persons did have rights as ...
... estates. No one was elected to the Estates ofLanguedoc. Voting was not by chamber, but by head. With double representation for the Third Estate, and with voting by head, the Estates of Languedoc before the Revolution enjoyed the two ...
... Third Estate possessed a veto on the two others, the estates of Brittany were dominated, or rather swamped, by nobles. Most of these were poor provincial gentry who hated taxes, viewed govern- ment and public works with suspicion ...
... Estates ofWürttemberg, or the Third Estate of Languedoc was recruited, remembering that in Holland or Switzerland there were few real elections at all, and recalling that the political zeal of Poles and Hungari- ans was possible for not ...
... Third Estate who brought about the National Assembly in 1789 were almost all of them lawyers or government career men, and that they abolished nobility fairly early in the Revo- lution, in 1790. erne et contemporaine, III (Jan.−Mar ...
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