Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2 : : The Struggle / / 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...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1970
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (596 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • I. The Issues and the Adversaries
  • II. The Revolutionizing of the Revolution
  • III. Liberation and Annexation: 1792-1793
  • IV. The Survival of the Revolution in France
  • V. Victories of the Counter-Revolution in Eastern Europe
  • VI. The Batavian Republic
  • VII. The French Directory: Mirage of the Moderates
  • VIII. The French Directory between Extremes
  • IX. The Revolution Comes to Italy
  • X. The Cisalpine Republic
  • XI. 1798: The High Tide of Revolutionary Democracy
  • XII. The Republics at Rome and Naples
  • XIII. The Helvetic Republic
  • XIV. Germany: The Revolution of the Mind
  • XV. Britain: Republicanism and the Establishment
  • XVI. America: Democracy Native and Imported
  • XVII. Climax and Denouement
  • Appendix
  • Index