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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... ofthe Modern World(1950), one ofthe best-selling textbooks of its time. Still barely forty, with his reputation secure, Palmer decided that “it seemed wise, all told, to become involved in a large-scale and long-term project, on which ...
... 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 propaganda shaped by modernization theory. Its omission of ...
... ofthe Democratic Revolution appeared long before climate change became a headline issue, before China again became a global economic powerhouse, and before historians generally ... of The Age ofthe Democratic Revolution has only xx Foreword.
... of The Age ofthe 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 ...
... of the new regime in a powerful country, with the setting up of dependent states in adjacent regions; agitation threatening all established governments, fron- tiers, interests, classes, and views of life ... ofthe Democratic Revolution 11.
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