Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1

The Challenge

R. R. Palmer

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780691005690, 9780691045009
• eBook ISBN: 9781400820115
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.

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Abingdon, Earl of, 148n., 180

Act of Mediation (Geneva, 1738), 127–28, 130, 133, 135

Act of Union (Belgium, 1789), 352

Act of Union (Poland, 1789), 425

Act of Union and Security (Sweden, 1789), 400, 512–13

Adams, John, 147, 161, 189; on America, 48, 160, 192–93; on Belgian Revolution, 322; on British Constitution, 144, 159, 178–79; on Dutch Revolution, 322, 329; on French Revolution, 200, 498; in Holland, 251–52; and Mably, 269–70; on Massachusetts Government Act, 177; on Massachusetts Constitution, 221–27; on Poland, 412, 415, 434n.; on political theory, 58–59, 267–68, 271–76

Adams, John Quincy, 187–89

Age of Freedom (Holland), 39

Aiguillon, Duc d’, 93

Alfieri, Vittorio, 238, 506

Alien Act of 1798, 19

Alost, 346

Alvarez, Don Francisco, 241–42

America, British, 48–51, 156–57, 244

America, Spanish, 51

American Revolution, 185–282

Amsterdam, 8, 17, 39, 327–28, 332, 338–39, 348

Anglican Church, 193, 317–20

Antwerp, 342–43

Arenberg, Duke of, 349

Argenson, Marquis d’, 14, 15, 84, 88

Arras, 471–72

Artois, Count of, 468, 484

Assembly of the Clergy (1765), 92; (1788), 463–64

Assembly of Notables, 455–56, 465

Assembly of Patriot Regents, 335–36

Aulard, Alphonse, 447

Auvergne, 461

Auxerre, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution
• II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies
• III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice
• IV. Clashes with Monarchy
• V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• VI. The British Parliament between King and People
• VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict
• VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power
• IX. Europe and the American Revolution
• X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform
• XI. Democrats and Aristocrats—Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss
• XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism
• XIII. The Lessons of Poland
• XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence
• XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789
• Appendices
• Index