For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great
revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state
came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R.
Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues
that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements
for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and
elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and
conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society,
marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating
elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on
social mobility and legal equality. Featuring a new foreword by David
Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic
Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring
work of political history.
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9781400850228
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2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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