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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1970Description: 1 online resource (596 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781400820122
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.25
LOC classification:
  • D295
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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, although each distinctive in its way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.Volume 1 of this distinguished two-volume work, "The Challenge," received critical accolades throughout the world. It was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1960 and was called "one of the classic works of American historical scholarship" (Key Reporter) and a book which "will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds" (New York Times). "Occasionally a historical work appears which, by synthesis of much previous specialized work and by intelligent reflection upon the whole, makes events of the past click into a new pattern and assume fresh meaning. Professor Palmer's book is such a work" (American Historical Review)."The Challenge" took the story to the eve of the French Revolutionary wars; Volume 2, "The Struggle" continues the account to 1800.
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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

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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, although each distinctive in its way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.Volume 1 of this distinguished two-volume work, "The Challenge," received critical accolades throughout the world. It was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1960 and was called "one of the classic works of American historical scholarship" (Key Reporter) and a book which "will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds" (New York Times). "Occasionally a historical work appears which, by synthesis of much previous specialized work and by intelligent reflection upon the whole, makes events of the past click into a new pattern and assume fresh meaning. Professor Palmer's book is such a work" (American Historical Review)."The Challenge" took the story to the eve of the French Revolutionary wars; Volume 2, "The Struggle" continues the account to 1800.

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In English.

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