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The Age of the Democratic Revolution : a Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

By Palmer , David , Armitage , R. R.

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0691161283, 978-0-691-16128-0, 9781400850228, 1400850223
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3770825 bytes)
Series
Princeton classics
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword
Pages
877\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1775-1783. Europe -- History -- 18th century. RevoEurope -- Politics and government -- 18th century.

Description

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.

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