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

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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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Year
2021
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9781400820115
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Abingdon, Earl of, 148n., 180
Act of Mediation (Geneva, 1738), 12728, 130, 133, 135
Act of Union (Belgium, 1789), 352
Act of Union (Poland, 1789), 425
Act of Union and Security (Sweden, 1789), 400, 51213
Adams, John, 147, 161, 189; on America, 48, 160, 19293; on Belgian Revolution, 322; on British Constitution, 144, 159, 17879; on Dutch Revolution, 322, 329; on French Revolution, 200, 498; in Holland, 25152; and Mably, 26970; on Massachusetts Government Act, 177; on Massachusetts Constitution, 22127; on Poland, 412, 415, 434n.; on political theory, 5859, 26768, 27176
Adams, John Quincy, 18789
Age of Freedom (Holland), 39
Aiguillon, Duc d’, 93
Alfieri, Vittorio, 238, 506
Alien Act of 1798, 19
Alost, 346
Alvarez, Don Francisco, 24142
America, British, 4851, 15657, 244
America, Spanish, 51
American Revolution, 185282
Amsterdam, 8, 17, 39, 32728, 332, 33839, 348
Anglican Church, 193, 31720
Antwerp, 34243
Arenberg, Duke of, 349
Argenson, Marquis d’, 14, 15, 84, 88
Arras, 47172
Artois, Count of, 468, 484
Assembly of the Clergy (1765), 92; (1788), 46364
Assembly of Notables, 45556, 465
Assembly of Patriot Regents, 33536
Aulard, Alphonse, 447
Auvergne, 461
Auxerre, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution
  7. II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies
  8. III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice
  9. IV. Clashes with Monarchy
  10. V. A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  11. VI. The British Parliament between King and People
  12. VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict
  13. VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power
  14. IX. Europe and the American Revolution
  15. X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform
  16. XI. Democrats and Aristocrats—Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss
  17. XII. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism
  18. XIII. The Lessons of Poland
  19. XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence
  20. XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789
  21. Appendices
  22. Index