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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... hand, Shippen's own father, a prominent doctor, had been a revolu- tionary of sorts, having acted as chief medical officer in the Continental Army. More generally, the point is that even Americans of aristocratic standing or pre ...
... hand, and the French,Western, and eighteenth-century revolutions on the other.Where the latter, he holds, arose as indigenous developments of their own culture, reflect- ing the growth of values, knowledge, and aspirations having deep ...
... hand or popular pres- sures on the other. Resisting superior authorities, these bodies could be liberal and even revolutionary. The democratic revolutionary movement, however, came into play when persons systematically excluded from ...
... hand, and “the transition to the more disciplined man- servant of Victorian London began to take place.”3 ... hands of a council of nobles of which the King was only the chairman. During sessions of the diet executive power reverted to a ...
... hand the Prussian civil service, one ofwhose functions had origi- nally been to watch over noblemen and rustic squires, became increasingly imbued with their spirit. Burghers in the civil service obtained semi-noble status, such as ...
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