The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

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THE AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION A Political History of Europe and America, 1760– 1800 R. R. PALMER With a new foreword by D ...

Copyright © 2014 by Princeton University Press Foreword copyright © 2014 by David Armitage Requests for permission to reproduce ...

The French Revolution had no territory of its own; indeed, its effect was to efface, in a way, all older frontiers. It brought m ...

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CONTENTS List of Maps xiii Foreword xv David Armitage Part 1: The Challenge Preface to Part 1 3 I. The Age of the Democratic Rev ...

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xii Contents The Brabant Declaration of Independence, 1789 806 The Geneva Edict of Pacification, 1782 807 The Canada Act, 1791 ...

MAPS The Social Contract, The Genevese Revolution of VI. The British Parliament between King and People The British Constitutio ...

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FOREWORD The late eighteenth century has long held a special place in narratives of the making of the modern world. Contemporari ...

xvi Foreword his return to civilian life and his professorship at Princeton, he published A History of the Modern World (1950), ...

Foreword xvii Palmer also had little patience for methodological nationalism. A History of the Modern World had treated “the rec ...

xviii Foreword less, and consensual. The Struggle met more resistance because it seemed to belittle the significance of the Fren ...

Foreword xix cifically, the history of education—and to studies of individual Frenchmen: the fa- ther and son historians of the ...