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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... colonies these families had repeatedly intermarried, until “their genealogical trees became veritable jungles of interwoven branches, the despair of the researcher but the pride of their descendants.”26 Visitors to the restored ...
... colonies than others. In New Jersey, for example, where the election of 1754 aroused enough public interest to draw out most of the voters, it is known that almost all the freeholders, or about half the adult white males, voted in ...
... colonies of Great Britain; but in Europe, if not in America, such provin- cial liberties gave more fiscal protection to the upper than to the lower classes. A heightened class consciousness, with accompanying social and psychological ...
... colonies after 1763, actually refer to the conflict between the Hapsburg govern- ment and the duchy of Milan.1 Since in Hungary and Bohemia the government at Vienna was often thought of as foreign, and even in France the more autono ...
... colonies and at the town of Geneva. In any case, the constituted bodies—parliaments, diets, estates, and councils, to a large extent hereditary in membership and avowedly aristocratic in political doc- trine—began to face a war on two ...
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