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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800

R. R. Palmer

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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800

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.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
ISBN-13
9780691161280
Genre
History
Topics
Democratic revolutions18th-century political changeAmerican and French Revolutions

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