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

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ISBN-10: 0691161283

ISBN-13: 9780691161280

Edition: 2014 (Revised)

Authors: R. R. Palmer, David Armitage

List price: $30.00
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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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 7.83" wide x 9.29" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

David Armitage has been working as an illustrator for almost thirty years. His most well-known books are the Light House Keeper books, which are published by Scholastic and have been in print for over twenty years. David divides his time between ne art, illustrating, and publishing the schools magazine "Aquilla". He lives in Sussex, England.