Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1:
The Challenge
R. R. Palmer

Paper | 1969 | $45.00 / £30.95
544 pp.

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"Robert Palmer possesses the combination of patient scholarship and broad philosophical inquiry the task demands. . . . This book will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will do more than that. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds."--Geoffrey Bruun, The New York Times

"It is a stimulating and provocative book in explicit defense of a position--a moral, political, if not quite religious position--which is the relatively unexamined position of the great majority of Americans. A reading of this book should help many to an explicit examination of their beliefs that may strengthen them and should certainly clarify them."--Crane Brinton, New York Herald Tribune

"Professor Palmer presents his historical synthesis with meticulous scholarship, pungent clarity, and emphatic conviction. . . . He has the rare gift of analyzing a historical situation in a manner that reveals, at the same time, both its past and its present significance."--J. Salwyn Schapiro, Saturday Review

Other Princeton books by R. R. Palmer:

• Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2: The Struggle.
• J. B. Say: An Economist in Troubled Times.
• Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution.

Subject Area:

• European History

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