Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 880 Seiten)
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Karten
ISBN:
9781400850228
Series Statement:
ProQuest Ebook Central v.7
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- Part 1: The Challenge -- Preface to Part 1 -- I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution -- The Revolution of Western Civilization -- A "Democratic" Revolution: "Democrat" and "Aristocrat" in European Languages -- A Preview of What Follows -- II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies -- The Diets of Eastern Europe -- Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone -- The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France -- Parliaments and Assemblies in the British Isles and America -- III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice -- Montesquieu, Real de Curban, Blackstone, Warburton -- Uses and Abuses of Social Rank -- Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation, and Class Consciousness -- IV. Clashes with Monarchy -- The QuasiRevolution in France, 1763-1774 -- The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden -- The Hapsburg Empire -- V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and JeanJacques Rousseau -- Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762 -- The Social Contract, 1762 -- The Genevese Revolution of 1768 -- VI. The British Parliament between King and People -- The British Constitution -- The First American Crisis: The Stamp Act -- Tribulations of Parliament, 1766-1774 -- The Second American Crisis: The Coercive Acts and the Continental Congress -- VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict -- The Revolution: Was There Any? -- AngloAmerica before the Revolution -- The Revolution: Democracy and Aristocracy -- The Revolution: Britain and Europe -- VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power -- The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas -- Constitution-Making in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts -- A Word on the Constitution of the United States -- Ambivalence of the American Revolution -- IX. Europe and the American Revolution.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691161280
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691161283
Additional Edition:
Print version The Age of the Democratic Revolution : A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Palmer, Robert R., 1909 - 2002 Age of the democratic revolution Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 9780691161280
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
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USA
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Revolution
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Geschichte 1760-1800
