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The age of the democratic revolution : a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800

Print Book, English, 1969
1st Princeton pbk. print View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1969
History
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
9780691005690, 9780691005706, 0691005699, 0691005702
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1] The Challenge : The age of the democratic revolution
Aristocracy about 1760: the constituted bodies
Aristocracy about 1760: theory and practice
Clashes with monarchy
A clash with democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The British Parliament between king and people
The American Revolution: the forces in conflict
The American Revolution: the people as constituent power
Europe and the American Revolution
Two parliaments escape reform
Democrats and aristocrats: Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss
The limitations of enlightened despotism
The lessons of Poland
The French Revolution: the aristocratic resurgence
The French Revolution: the explosion of 1789
Appendices
[2] The struggle : The issues and the adversaries
The revolutionizing of the Revolution
Liberation and annexation; 1792-1793
The survival of the revolution in France
Victories of the counter-revolution in Eastern Europe
The Batavian Republic
The French Directory: mirage of the moderates
The French Directory between the extremes
The Revolution comes to Italy
The Cisalpine Republic
1798: the high tide of revolutionary democracy
The republics at Rome and Naples
The Helvetic Republic
Germany: the revolution of the mind
Britain: republicanism and the establishment
America: democracy native and imported
Climax and denouement
Appendix