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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... foreign affairs. Before 1748 there had been a period of almost half a century without a stadtholder, called the Age of Freedom or ware vrijheid (as in Sweden), during which the town oligarchies became thoroughly entrenched. “Everything ...
... foreign rulers, and incidentally bind the nobles more closely to himself, by making them into ambassadors or lords lieutenant or military governors with a good many ceremonial functions in addi- tion to the practical ones.They also made ...
... foreign rule.”These words, which might apply to the dispute between the British Parliament and the American colonies after 1763, actually refer to the conflict between the Hapsburg govern- ment and the duchy of Milan.1 Since in Hungary ...
... foreign affairs, according to this remonstrance of January 1764, the King's authority is “without limits,” and “blind obedience is a duty.” “But civil government, while its fulness resides entirely in the hands of the sovereign, is ...
... foreign aid. In both countries outside powers spent money freely to bribe members ofthe diet in their own inter- est; influential Swedes and Poles regarded such gratuities as normal income conse- quent upon their position.The French ...
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