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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... Modern World had treated “the record of our troubled civilization” and subordinated national histories to the larger narratives of Eastern and Western “civilizations.”5 Soon after it appeared, Palmer collaborated with Jacques Godechot ...
... , citation for the award of the Premio Feltrinelli to R. R. Palmer (1990), quoted in Tortarolo, “Eighteenth-Century Atlantic History Old and New,” 374. Bayly, C. A. The Birth ofthe Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Foreword xxi.
... modern Soviet scholars; it is also the view of many warmly anti- Soviet and anticommunist writers, notably of Professor Talmon of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, who traces the “origins of totalitarian democracy,” or So- viet ...
... modern Left; thus a Dutch scholar has argued, partly on the mistaken ground that “democracy” was little heard in Hol- land before 1800, that the modern “Eastern” use of the word, implying an eco- nomic rather than a political equality ...
... modern sense appears to have been confined to the invading French. The Swiss, when they used the word favorably, generally referred to the small historic democracies of the rural cantons, which were in fact oligarchic in the eighteenth ...
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