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. Featuring a new foreword by David Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring work of political history. |
Contents
Preface to Part 1 3 | 3 |
The Constituted Bodies 22 | 22 |
Theory and Practice | 42 |
Clashes with Monarchy | 64 |
Geneva and JeanJacques Rousseau | 83 |
The British Parliament between King and People | 106 |
The Forces in Conflict | 138 |
The People as Constituent Power | 159 |
The Survival of the Revolution in France | 447 |
Victories of the CounterRevolution in Eastern Europe | 473 |
Eastern Europe in 1791 443 | 474 |
The Batavian Republic | 505 |
Mirage of the Moderates | 530 |
The French Directory between Extremes | 544 |
The Revolution Comes to Italy | 568 |
The Cisalpine Republic | 589 |
Europe and the American Revolution | 177 |
Two Parliaments Escape Reform | 214 |
Democrats and AristocratsDutch Belgian and Swiss | 242 |
The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism | 280 |
The Aristocratic Resurgence | 326 |
The Explosion of 1789 | 347 |
Preface to Part 2 | 375 |
Revolutionary Zone Early 1789 | 389 |
The Revolutionizing of the Revolution | 400 |
17921793 | 424 |
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