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

by R. R. Palmer. 534 pgs.

Contributors:

   R. R. Palmer

Publisher:

   Princeton University Press

Place of Publication:

  Princeton, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1959

Subjects:

Constitutional History, Europe--Politics And Government--18th Century

	CONTENTS
	Preface
I.	The Age of the Democratic Revolution	3
	The Revolution of Western Civilization	5
	A "Democratic" Revolution: "Democrat" and "Aristocrat" in European Languages	13
	A Preview of What Follows	20
II.	Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies	27
	The Diets of Eastern Europe	30
	Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone	33
	The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France	41
	Parliaments and Assemblies in the British Isles and America	44
III.	Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice	55
	Montesquieu, Réal de Curban, Blackstone, Warburton	56
	Uses and Abuses of Social Rank	67
	Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation, and Class Consciousness	74
IV.	Clashes with Monarchy	85
	The Quasi-Revolution in France, 1763-1774	86
	The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden	99
	The Hapsburg Empire	103
V.	A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau	111
	Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762	112
	The Social Contract, 1762	119
	The Genevese Revolution of 1768	127
VI.	The British Parliament between King and People	143
	The British Constitution	143
	The First American Crisis: The Stamp Act	153
	Tribulations of Parliament, 1766-1774	164
	The Second American Crisis: The Coercive Acts and the Continental Congress	173
VII.	The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict	185
	The Revolution: Was There Any?	185
	Anglo-America before the Revolution	190
	The Revolution: Democracy and Aristocracy	197
	The Revolution: Britain and Europe	206
VIII.	The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power	213
	The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas	214
	Constitution-making in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts	217
	A Word on the Constitution of the United States	228
	Ambivalence of the American Revolution	232
IX.	Europe and the American Revolution	239
	The Sense of a New Era	239
	Channels of Communication	242
	The Depths of Feeling	253
	The American Constitutions: An International Argument	263
X.	Two Parliaments Escape Reform	285
	The Arming of Ireland: Grattan's Parliament	287
	The "Association" Movement in England	294
	The Reform Bills and Their Failure	302
	The Conservatism of Edmund Burke	308
	The "Appellation of Citizen" vs. the Test Act	317
XI.	Democrats and Aristocrats -- Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss	323
	The Dutch Patriot Movement	324
	The Belgian Revolution	341
	A View of Switzerland	358
	Reflections on the Foregoing	364
XII.	The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism	373
	Joseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above	374
	Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack	384
	Three Charters of the North	397
XIII.	The Lessons of Poland	411
	The Gentry Republic	412
	The Polish Revolution: The Constitution of 1791	422
	A Game of Ideological Football	429
XIV.	The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence	439
	The Problem of the French Revolution	442
	Ministers and Parlements, 1774-1788	448
	The Aristocratic Revolt	458
	XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789	469
	The Formation of a Revolutionary Psychology	470
	The Overturn: May to August 1789	479
	The Constitution: Mounier and Sieyès	489
	Appendices	503
I.	References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters	505
II.	Translations of Metrical Passages	506
III.	Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents	508
1.	The Russian Charter of Nobility, 1785	508
2.	The Prussian General Code, 1791	509
3.	The Swedish Act of Union and Security, 1789	512
4.	The Polish Constitution of 1791	513
5.	The Hungarian Coronation Oath of 1790	514
6.	The Brabant Declaration of Independence, 1789	514
7.	The Geneva Edict of Pacification, 1782	515
8.	The Canada Act, 1791	515
9.	The Constitutions of the United States, 1787, and of Pennsylvania, 1790	516
10.	The French Constitution of 1789-1791	516
IV.	The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the French Declaration of Rights of 1789	518
V.	"Democratic" and "Bourgeois" Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain, and America	522
	Index	529

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