| Title | : | The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe America 1760-1800 |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 1144 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1964 |
| Awards | : | Bancroft Prize (1960) |
Palmer's most important work of historical scholarship is The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe & America 1760-1800. Published in 2 volumes: The Challenge ('59) which won the Bancroft Prize in History & The Struggle ('64). This masterwork traced the growth of two competing forces--ideas of democracy & equality, on one hand, & the growing power of aristocracies in society, on the other--& the extraordinary results of the collision between these forces, including both the American & French Revolutions. The book foreshadowed the development in the 1990s & early 2000s of ideas of Atlantic history & global history, & remains to this day a valuable resource for scholars. In 1971 he published a slightly revised & condensed version of the 2nd volume as The World of the French Revolution.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe America 1760-1800 Reviews
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We used Palmer's history of Europe as our text in Tim Little's high school European History A.P. class, so I was excited to find a copy of his magnum opus available and finally got down to read the thing when not burdened by school assignments.
Palmer's two volume book is an attempt to globally picture the revolutionary currents which swept Europe and the Americas in the last four decades of the eighteenth century. It is not just about the revolutions in North America and in France, but it does concentrate on them.
