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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
R R Palmer |
| ISBN: | 0691005699 9780691005690 |
| OCLC Number: | 8118347 |
| Description: | 2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 1] The Challenge : The age of the democratic revolution -- Aristocracy about 1760: the constituted bodies -- Aristocracy about 1760: theory and practice --Clashes with monarchy -- A clash with democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The British Parliament between king and people -- The American Revolution: the forces in conflict -- The American Revolution: the people as constituent power -- Europe and the American Revolution -- Two parliaments escape reform -- Democrats and aristocrats: Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss -- The limitations of enlightened despotism -- The lessons of Poland -- The French Revolution: the aristocratic resurgence -- The French Revolution: the explosion of 1789 -- Appendices -- [2] The struggle : The issues and the adversaries -- The revolutionizing of the Revolution -- Liberation and annexation; 1792-1793 -- The survival of the revolution in France -- Victories of the counter-revolution in Eastern Europe -- The Batavian Republic -- The French Directory: mirage of the moderates -- The French Directory between the extremes -- The Revolution comes to Italy -- The Cisalpine Republic -- 1798: the high tide of revolutionary democracy -- The republics at Rome and Naples -- The Helvetic Republic -- Germany: the revolution of the mind -- Britain: republicanism and the establishment -- America: democracy native and imported -- Climax and denouement -- Appendix. |
| Series Title: | Princeton paperbacks, 192 |
| Other Titles: | Challenge. Struggle. |
| Responsibility: | by R.R. Palmer. |
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