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. |
Contents
The Age of the Democratic Revolution | 3 |
The Constituted Bodies | 27 |
Theory and Practice | 55 |
Clashes with Monarchy | 85 |
Geneva and JeanJacques Rousseau | 111 |
The British Parliament between King and People | 143 |
The Stamp | 153 |
Tribulations of Parliament 17661774 | 164 |
The Dutch Patriot Movement | 324 |
The Belgian Revolution | 340 |
A View of Switzerland | 358 |
Reflections on the Foregoing | 364 |
The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism | 373 |
The Lessons of Poland | 411 |
The Aristocratic Resurgence | 439 |
References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters | 505 |
The Coercive Acts and | 173 |
Was There Any? | 185 |
The People as Constituent Power | 213 |
A Word on the Constitution of the United States | 228 |
Europe and the American Revolution | 239 |
Two Parliaments Escape Reform | 285 |
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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America ... Robert Roswell Palmer No preview available - 1959 |
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