Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1 : : The Challenge / / R. R. Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Palmer, R. R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1959
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution --; II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies --; III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice --; IV. Clashes with Monarchy --; V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau --; VI. The British Parliament between King and People --; VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict --; VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power --; IX. Europe and the American Revolution --; X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform --; XI Democrats and Aristocrats-Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss --; XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism --; XIII. The Lessons of Poland --; XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence --; XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789 --; APPENDICES --; APPENDIX I References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters --; APPENDIX II Translations of Metrical Passages --; APPENDIX III. Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents --; APPENDIX IV. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789 --; APPENDIX V. "Democratic" and "Bourgeois" Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain, and America --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400820115; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400820115?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: R. R. Palmer.

For 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.