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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... Democratic Revolution 5 The Revolution of Western Civilization 7 A “Democratic” Revolution: “Democrat” and “Aristocrat” in European Languages A Preview of What Follows II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies The Diets of ...
... Democratic Revolution focused on the American Revolution; the second, on the French Revolution and its aftermath. Two timely themes linked them: the Tocquevillian topic of ever-expanding equality and the more immediate questions of how ...
... democracy with modernity, and his presentation of the late eighteenth-century world as ideo- logically riven between revolution and counterrevolution, encouraged readings of The Age ofthe Democratic Revolution as subtle Cold War ...
... Democratic Revolution has only become clearer since 1989, and its relevance has increased since the Arab Spring and the explosion of popular protest across the world since 2011. Little of the energy of these move- ments has been ...
... DEMOCRATIC. REVOLUTION. Two great parties are forming in all nations. . . . For one, there is a right ofgovern- ment, to be exercised by one or several persons over the mass of the people, ofdi- vine origin and to be supported by the ...
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