num_pages: 544
description: subtitle: A Political History of Europe &amp; America 1760-1800Preface I/The Age of the Democratic Revolution  The Revolution of Western Civilization  A Democratic Revolution: Democrat &amp; Aristocrat in European Languages A Preview of What Follows II/Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies  The Diets of Eastern Europe Councils &amp; Estates of the Middle Zone  The Provincial Estates &amp; Parlements of France  Parliaments &amp; Assemblies in the British Isles &amp; America III/Aristocracy about 1760: Theory &amp; Practice Montesquieu, Réal de Curban, Blackstone, Warburton  Uses &amp; Abuses of Social Rank Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation &amp; Class ConsciousnessIV/Clashes w/Monarchy  The Quasi-Revolution in France 1763-74  The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden  The Hapsburg EmpireV/A Clash w/Democracy: Geneva &amp; Jean-Jacques Rousseau  Rousseau, Voltaire &amp; Geneva to 1762 The Social Contract 1762 The Genevese Revolution of 1768 VI/The British Parliament between King &amp; People  The British Constitution The 1st American Crisis: The Stamp Act  Tribulations of Parliament 1766-74  The 2nd American Crisis: Coercive Acts &amp; Continental CongressVII/The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict  The Revolution: Was There Any? Anglo-America before the Revolution  The Revolution: Democracy &amp; Aristocracy  The Revolution: Britain &amp; EuropeVIII/The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas Constitution-making in N Carolina, Pennsylvania &amp; Massachusetts A Word on the Constitution of the US Ambivalence of the American Revolution IX/Europe &amp; the American Revolution  The Sense of a New Era Channels of Communication  The Depths of Feeling  The American Constitutions: An International Argument X/Two Parliaments Escape Reform The Arming of Ireland: Grattan's Parliament  The Association Movement in England The Reform Bills &amp; Their Failure The Conservatism of Edmund Burke  The Appellation of Citizen v. the Test Act XI/Democrats &amp; Aristocrats--Dutch, Belgian &amp; Swiss  The Dutch Patriot Movement The Belgian Revolution A View of Switzerland Reflections on the Foregoing XII/The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism  Joseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above  Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack  Three Charters of the NorthXIII/The Lessons of Poland  The Gentry Republic The Polish Revolution: The Constitution of 1791  A Game of Ideological FootballXIV/The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence  The Problem of the French Revolution Ministers &amp; Parlements 1774-88  The Aristocratic Revolt  XV/The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789  The Formation of a Revolutionary Psychology  The Overturn: May-August 1789 The Constitution: Mounier &amp; Sieyès  AppendicesI/References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters II/Translations of Metrical PassagesIII/Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents 1. The Russian Charter of Nobility 17852. The Prussian General Code 17913. The Swedish Act of Union &amp; Security 1789 4. The Polish Constitution of 17915. The Hungarian Coronation Oath of 1790 6. The Brabant Declaration of Independence 1789 7. The Geneva Edict of Pacification 17828. The Canada Act 17919. The Constitutions of the US 1787 &amp; of Pennsylvania 1790 10. The French Constitution of 1789-91IV/The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 &amp; the French Declaration of Rights of 1789V/Democratic &amp; Bourgeois Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain &amp; America Index
language: English
title: The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Vol 1: The Challenge
publisher: Princeton University Press