Robert Roswell Palmer
Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American
historian at
Princeton and
Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, ''The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800'' (1959 and 1964), examined the
Atlantic Revolutions, an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the
Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.
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