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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, R. R. (Robert Roswell), 1909-2002, author.

Armitage, David, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Princeton classics.

Princeton Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Europe--History--18th century.

Revolutions.

Constitutional history.

Europe--Politics and government--18th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (877 p.)

Edition:

Updated edition with a New Foreword

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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:

Front matter

CONTENTS

List of Maps

Foreword / Armitage, David

Part 1: The Challenge

Preface to Part 1

I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution

II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies

III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice

IV. Clashes with Monarchy

V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

VI. The British Parliament between King and People

VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict

VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power

IX. Europe and the American Revolution

X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform

XI. Democrats and Aristocrats-Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss

XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism

XIII. The Lessons of Poland

XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence

XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789

Part 2: The Struggle

Preface to Part 2

XVI. The Issues and the Adversaries

XVII. The Revolutionizing of the Revolution

XVIII. Liberation and Annexation: 1792-1793

XIX. The Survival of the Revolution in France

XX. Victories of the Counter-Revolution in Eastern Europe

XXI. The Batavian Republic

XXII. The French Directory: Mirage of the Moderates

XXIII. The French Directory between Extremes

XXIV. The Revolution Comes to Italy

XXV. The Cisalpine Republic

XXVI. 1798: The High Tide of Revolutionary Democracy

XXVII. The Republics at Rome and Naples

XXVIII. The Helvetic Republic

XXIX. Germany: The Revolution of the Mind

XXX. Britain: Republicanism and the Establishment

XXXI. America: Democracy Native and Imported

XXXII. Climax and Dénouement

Appendixes I. References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters

Appendixes II. Translations of Metrical Passages

Appendixes III. Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents

Appendixes IV. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789

Appendixes V. "Democratic" and "Bourgeois" Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain, and America

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400850228

1400850223

OCLC:

880057990