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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A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition R. R. Palmer. Trotsky, as it is of modern ... politics and the needs of war; and that the ballooning up of the Revolution into a vast, fearsome, perpetual, gi- gantic ...
A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition R. R. Palmer. as often as eleven times within a few hundred words; and these three texts are those of Paine, Robespierre, and the man who became Pius VII. In the ...
... politics within this council were dominated by the trade gilds. Of all magistrates chosen between 1529 and 1798 ... political rights; then the natifs, born in the city but not of citizen or burgher parentage; and finally the sujets ...
A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition R. R. Palmer. In summary, and here one may agree with Professor Lousse and the corporatist school already mentioned, nothing was more characteristic of the eighteenth ...
A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition R. R. Palmer. CHAPTER. III. ARISTOCRACY. ABOUT. 1760: THEORY. AND. PRACTICE. To be bred in a place of estimation, to see nothing low and sordid from one's in- fancy; to ...
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