The age of the democratic revolution : a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800
R. R. Palmer ; with a new foreword by David Armitage.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
"For 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" --
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Bibliographic Information
- Format:
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Book
- Subject:
- Revolutions > Europe > History > 18th century.
- Constitutional history.
- Europe > Politics and government > 18th century.
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Language:
- English
- Published:
- Princeton, NJ
- ISBN:
- 9780691161280
- Course:
- HIST220
The Modern World - Series:
- Princeton classics.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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