The Age of the Democratic Revolution: The challengeFor the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. |
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Contents
II | 3 |
III | 5 |
IV | 13 |
V | 20 |
VI | 27 |
VII | 30 |
VIII | 33 |
IX | 41 |
XLII | 294 |
XLIII | 302 |
XLIV | 308 |
XLV | 317 |
XLVI | 323 |
XLVII | 324 |
XLVIII | 341 |
XLIX | 358 |
X | 44 |
XI | 55 |
XII | 56 |
XIII | 67 |
XIV | 74 |
XV | 85 |
XVI | 86 |
XVII | 99 |
XVIII | 103 |
XIX | 111 |
XX | 112 |
XXI | 119 |
XXII | 127 |
XXIII | 143 |
XXIV | 153 |
XXV | 164 |
XXVI | 173 |
XXVII | 185 |
XXVIII | 190 |
XXIX | 197 |
XXX | 206 |
XXXI | 213 |
XXXII | 214 |
XXXIII | 217 |
XXXIV | 228 |
XXXV | 232 |
XXXVI | 239 |
XXXVII | 242 |
XXXVIII | 253 |
XXXIX | 263 |
XL | 285 |
XLI | 287 |
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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America ... R. R. Palmer No preview available - 1959 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Age of the Democratic Revolution: The challenge ACLS Humanities E-Book Volume 1 of Age of the Democratic Revolution, Robert Roswell Palmer History e-book project Princeton paperbacks Volume 1 of The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Robert Roswell Palmer |
| Author | R. R. Palmer |
| Contributors | R. R. Palmer, American Council of Learned Societies |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 1959 |
| ISBN | 0691005699, 9780691005690 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General |
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