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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R R Palmer |
| ISBN: | 0691005699 9780691005690 0691005702 9780691005706 |
| OCLC Number: | 8118347 |
| Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations, 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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"Robert Palmer possesses the combination of patient scholarship and broad philosophical inquiry the task demands... This book will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will do more than that. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds."--Geoffrey Bruun, New York Times "It is a stimulating and provocative book in explicit defense of a position--a moral, political, if not quite religious position--which is the relatively unexamined position of the great majority of Americans. A reading of this book should help many to an explicit examination of their beliefs that may strengthen them and should certainly clarify them."--Crane Brinton, New York Herald Tribune "Professor Palmer presents his historical synthesis with meticulous scholarship, pungent clarity, and emphatic conviction... He has the rare gift of analyzing a historical situation in a manner that reveals, at the same time, both its past and its present significance."--J. Salwyn Schapiro, Saturday Review "An examination of the revolutionary movements in Western Europe from 1760 until the first explosions of the French Revolution...it searches for the common ideas, needs, and situations between the American Revolution and the contemporary movements in Europe."--Commonweal Read more...
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