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

Content: Cover
 Title
 Copyright
 CONTENTS
 List of Maps
 Foreword
 Part 1: The Challenge
 Preface to Part 1
 I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution
 The Revolution of Western Civilization
 A \"Democratic\" Revolution: \"Democrat\" and \"Aristocrat\" in European Languages
 A Preview of What Follows
 II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies
 The Diets of Eastern Europe
 Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone
 The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France
 Parliaments and Assemblies in the British Isles and America
 III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice. Montesquieu, Real de Curban, Blackstone, WarburtonUses and Abuses of Social Rank
 Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation, and Class Consciousness
 IV. Clashes with Monarchy
 The QuasiRevolution in France, 1763-1774
 The Monarchist Coup d\'Etat of 1772 in Sweden
 The Hapsburg Empire
 V.A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and JeanJacques Rousseau
 Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762
 The Social Contract, 1762
 The Genevese Revolution of 1768
 VI. The British Parliament between King and People
 The British Constitution
 The First American Crisis: The Stamp Act. Tribulations of Parliament, 1766-1774The Second American Crisis: The Coercive Acts and the Continental Congress
 VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict
 The Revolution: Was There Any?
 AngloAmerica before the Revolution
 The Revolution: Democracy and Aristocracy
 The Revolution: Britain and Europe
 VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power
 The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas
 Constitution-Making in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts
 A Word on the Constitution of the United States
 Ambivalence of the American Revolution. IX. Europe and the American RevolutionThe 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 and Their Failure
 The Conservatism of Edmund Burke
 The \"Appellation of Citizen\" vs. the Test Act
 XI. Democrats and Aristocrats-Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss
 The Dutch Patriot Movement
 The Belgian Revolution
 A View of Switzerland
 Reflections on the Foregoing. XII. The Limitations of Enlightened DespotismJoseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above
 Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack
 Three Charters of the North
 XIII. The Lessons of Poland
 The Gentry Republic
 The Polish Revolution: The Constitution of 1791
 A Game of Ideological Football
 XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence
 The Problem of the French Revolution
 Ministers and Parlements, 1774-1788
 The Aristocratic Revolt
 XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789
 The Formation of a Revolutionary Psychology
 The Overturn: May to August 1789.