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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.… (mais)
I read the single-volume edition of this book which includes both part 1 (the Challenge) and 2 (the Struggle). With 800 pages in small font, it is equal to about three or four regular books in terms of length. The author only covers a timespan of 40 years, 1760-1800, but does it in great detail.
The American and French revolutions are at the center of this book, but the author does not provide a standard account of either one. Instead he puts the spotlight on various tensions that contributed to these revolutions. After the revolutions, he shifts the spotlight to the efforts that were made to institutionalize political conflict in ways that could address those tensions and heal the wounds that the revolutions had torn up. The problems associated with creating new institutions could be more successfully solved in America than in France because society was far more equal in the former country.
But about half of the book is devoted to explaining how the American and French revolutions influenced other countries, particularly in Europe. The author explains how the French fomented short-lived popular revolutions in various small neighbors regions and the reasons why these efforts failed. A main theme in this international discussion is that "democratic" supporters of revolution and "conservative" opponents could be found everywhere. The two big revolutions therefore shifted the foundations of local politics even in places where everything remained unchanged on the surface.
A little bit more summarizing could have been helpful to make the author's conclusions more clear. Towards the end of the book the author also could have gazed forward to the first decade of the 19th century instead of just abruptly ending his narrative at the year 1800. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to readers who are interested in political history in the true sense of the word: not the lives and deeds of great statesmen, but the disagreements and inequalities that existed in society, the actions that powerful groups took to attack or defend these inequalities and the ideas that guided and popularized actions on either side. The author spends a lot of time narrating relatively small, local and even insignificant events, but an informative overall picture of 18th century American and European politics still emerges between the lines.
2069 The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 The Challenge, by R. R. Palmer (read 29 Mar 1987) This is the first volume of a two-volume work. It spends a lot of time talking about theory and it was not too interesting at times. There are 15 chapters and they cover the period from 1760 to 1789. ( )
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Preface -- There have been a great many works on the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the beginnings of the parliamentary reform movement in Great Britain, and on Irish affairs, as also, though less known in the English-speaking world, on the several countries of continental Europe during this revolutionary era.
A young Philadelphian of good family, Thomas Shippen, in the course of a visit to Europe, where he cultivated the acquaintance of "titled men and ladies of birth," bore a letter of introduction to Thomas Jefferson, the American Minister to France, who presented him at the court of Versailles.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The conditions are hard to meet, but the stakes are high, for the alternative may be worse.
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.
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The American and French revolutions are at the center of this book, but the author does not provide a standard account of either one. Instead he puts the spotlight on various tensions that contributed to these revolutions. After the revolutions, he shifts the spotlight to the efforts that were made to institutionalize political conflict in ways that could address those tensions and heal the wounds that the revolutions had torn up. The problems associated with creating new institutions could be more successfully solved in America than in France because society was far more equal in the former country.
But about half of the book is devoted to explaining how the American and French revolutions influenced other countries, particularly in Europe. The author explains how the French fomented short-lived popular revolutions in various small neighbors regions and the reasons why these efforts failed. A main theme in this international discussion is that "democratic" supporters of revolution and "conservative" opponents could be found everywhere. The two big revolutions therefore shifted the foundations of local politics even in places where everything remained unchanged on the surface.
A little bit more summarizing could have been helpful to make the author's conclusions more clear. Towards the end of the book the author also could have gazed forward to the first decade of the 19th century instead of just abruptly ending his narrative at the year 1800. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to readers who are interested in political history in the true sense of the word: not the lives and deeds of great statesmen, but the disagreements and inequalities that existed in society, the actions that powerful groups took to attack or defend these inequalities and the ideas that guided and popularized actions on either side. The author spends a lot of time narrating relatively small, local and even insignificant events, but an informative overall picture of 18th century American and European politics still emerges between the lines.