Age of the Democratic Revolution : The Challenge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, R. R.

Armitage, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 pages)

Other Title:

Age of the Democratic Revolution

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1959.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

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

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters

APPENDIX II Translations of Metrical Passages

APPENDIX III. Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents

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

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

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781400820115

1400820111

OCLC:

1262372659