The Age of the Democratic Revolution
A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition
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 gre…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-16128-0
- EAN: 9780691161280
- Produktnummer: 15520442
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 880 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.5 cm 922 g
- Auflage: Revised ed
- Abbildungen: 5 Maps
- Gewicht: 922
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
R. R. Palmer (1909-2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His books include Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (Princeton). The first volume of The Age of the Democratic Revolution won the Bancroft Prize in 1960. David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University.
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