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The age of the democratic revolution: a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Vol. 1

R. R. Palmer
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution (page 3)
    • The Revolution of Western Civilization (page 5)
    • A "Democratic" Revolution: "Democrat" and "Aristocrat" in European Languages (page 13)
    • A Preview of What Follows (page 20)
  • II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies (page 27)
    • The Diets of Eastern Europe (page 30)
    • Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone (page 33)
    • The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France (page 41)
    • Parliaments and Assemblies in the British Isles and America (page 44)
  • III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice (page 55)
    • Montesquieu, Real de Curban, Blackstone, Warburton (page 56)
    • Uses and Abuses of Social Rank (page 67)
    • Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation, and Class Consciousness (page 74)
  • IV. Clashes with Monarchy (page 85)
    • The Quasi-Revolution in France, 1763-1774 (page 86)
    • The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden (page 99)
    • The Hapsburg Empire (page 103)
  • V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page 111)
    • Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762 (page 112)
    • The Social Contract, 1762 (page 119)
    • The Genevese Revolution of 1768 (page 127)
  • VI. The British Parliament between King and People (page 143)
    • The British Constitution (page 143)
    • The First American Crisis: The Stamp Act (page 153)
    • Tribulations of Parliament, 1766-1774 (page 164)
    • The Second American Crisis: The Coercive Acts and the Continental Congress (page 173)
  • VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict (page 185)
    • The Revolution: Was There Any? (page 185)
    • Anglo-America before the Revolution (page 190)
    • The Revolution: Democracy and Aristocracy (page 197)
    • The Revolution: Britain and Europe (page 206)
  • VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power (page 213)
    • The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas (page 214)
    • Constitution-making in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (page 217)
    • A Word on the Constitution of the United States (page 228)
    • Ambivalence of the American Revolution (page 232)
  • IX. Europe and the American Revolution (page 239)
    • The Sense of a New Era (page 239)
    • Channels of Communication (page 242)
    • The Depths of Feeling (page 253)
    • The American Constitutions: An International Argument (page 263)
  • X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform (page 285)
    • The Arming of Ireland: "Grattan's Parliament" (page 287)
    • The "Association" Movement in England (page 294)
    • The Reform Bills and Their Failure (page 302)
    • The Conservatism of Edmund Burke (page 308)
    • The "Appellation of Citizen" vs. the Test Act (page 317)
  • XI. Democrats and Aristocrats--Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss (page 323)
    • The Dutch Patriot Movement (page 324)
    • The Belgian Revolution (page 341)
    • A View of Switzerland (page 358)
    • Reflections on the Foregoing (page 364)
  • XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism (page 373)
    • Joseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above (page 374)
    • Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack (page 384)
    • Three Charters of the North (page 397)
  • XIII. The Lessons of Poland (page 411)
    • The Gentry Republic (page 412)
    • The Polish Revolution: The Constitution of 1791 (page 422)
    • A Game of Ideological Football (page 429)
  • XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence (page 439)
    • The Problem of the French Revolution (page 442)
    • Ministers and Parlements, 1774-1788 (page 448)
    • The Aristocratic Revolt (page 458)
  • XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789 (page 469)
    • The Formation of a Revolutionary Psychology (page 470)
    • The Overturn: May to August 1789 (page 479)
    • The Constitution: Mounier and Sieyes (page 489)
  • Appendices (page 503)
    • I. References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters (page 505)
    • II. Translations of Metrical Passages (page 506)
    • III. Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents (page 508)
      • 1. The Russian Charter of Nobility, 1785 (page 508)
      • 2. The Prussian General Code, 1791 (page 509)
      • 3. The Swedish Act of Union and Security, 1789 (page 512)
      • 4. The Polish Constitution of 1791 (page 513)
      • 5. The Hungarian Coronation Oath of 1790 (page 514)
      • 6. The Brabant Declaration of Independence, 1789 (page 514)
      • 7. The Geneva Edict of Pacification, 1782 (page 515)
      • 8. The Canada Act, 1791 (page 515)
      • 9. The Constitutions of the United States, 1787, and of Pennsylvania, 1790 (page 516)
      • 10. The French Constitution of 1789-1791 (page 517)
    • IV. The Virgina Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789 (page 518)
    • V. "Democratic" and "Bourgeois" Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain, and America (page 522)
  • Index (page 529)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JMH 37.3 (Sep. 1965): 373-374 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28196509%2937%3A3%3C373%3ATAOTDR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
AHR 70.4 (Jul. 1965): 1076-1077 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28196507%2970%3A4%3C1076%3ATAOTDR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
WMQ 3.22.3 (Jul. 1965): 498-504 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28196507%293%3A22%3A3%3C498%3AGITWOH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
PSQ 75.3 (Sep. 1960): 424-425 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3195%28196009%2975%3A3%3C424%3ATAOTDR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
JMH 32.2 (Jun. 1960): 164 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28196006%2932%3A2%3C164%3ATAOTDR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
JP 22.2 (May 1960): 346-347 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28196005%2922%3A2%3C346%3ATAOTDR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
JSH 26.2 (Feb. 1960): 100-102 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28196002%2926%3A1%3C100%3ATAODRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
Citable Link
Published: 1959
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691005690 (paper)
  • 9780691005706 (ebook)
  • 9780691045009 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: Colonial to 1789
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