The Age of the Democratic Revolution: The strugglePrinceton University Press, 1959 - 596 pages 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, although each distinctive in its way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. |
Contents
The Issues and The Adversaries | 3 |
Bastille Day 1792 | 5 |
Ideological War | 10 |
The Adversaries | 16 |
Shades of Doctrine | 27 |
The Revolutionizing of the Revolution | 35 |
The Second French Revolution | 36 |
Popular Revolutionism | 44 |
The Cispadane Republic | 302 |
The Venetian Revolution and the Treaty of Campo Formio | 306 |
Sketch of a Modern State | 310 |
Politics and Vicissitudes of the Cisalpine | 317 |
1798 The High Tide of Revolutionary Democracy | 327 |
The Great Nation the SisterRepublics and the Wave of Cisalpinization | 330 |
A Comparative View of the New Republican Order | 338 |
The Republican Constitutions | 346 |
International Revolutionism | 50 |
Liberation and Annexation 17921793 | 69 |
The Submersion of Poland | 86 |
The Survival of the Revolution in France | 99 |
Gouvernement revolutionnaire | 102 |
Reaction against Popular and International Revolutionism | 113 |
The Moral Republic | 124 |
The Meaning of Thermidor | 129 |
Victories of the CounterRevolution in Eastern Europe | 135 |
The Impact of the Western Revolution in Russia | 140 |
The Abortive Polish Revolution of 1794 | 146 |
Agitations in the Hapsburg Empire | 156 |
The Jacobin Conspiracies at Vienna and in Hungary 1794 | 164 |
An Addendum on Southeast Europe | 171 |
The Batavian Republic | 177 |
The Dutch Revolution of 17941795 | 180 |
The Frustration of the Conciliators | 187 |
Federalists and Democrats | 192 |
Dutch Democracy at Its Height | 199 |
A Word on the Dutch of South Africa | 204 |
The French Directory Mirage of the Moderates | 211 |
After Thermidor | 212 |
The Directory | 214 |
The Sources of Moderate Strength | 219 |
The French Directory between Extremes | 231 |
The Throne and the Altar | 244 |
Fructidor and Floréal | 255 |
The Revolution Comes to Italy | 263 |
The Beginning of French Action in Italy | 270 |
Italy before 1796 | 275 |
The Kingdom of Corsica | 284 |
The Cisalpine Republic | 293 |
The Val Padana and the Bridge at Lodi | 295 |
Christianity and Democracy | 353 |
The Republics at Rome and Naples | 365 |
The Roman Republic | 372 |
The Neapolitan Republic | 382 |
The Helvetic Republic | 395 |
Revolution and Annexation | 398 |
The Swiss Revolutionaries | 402 |
Swiss Unity vs External Pressures | 406 |
Internal Stresses in the Helvetic Republic | 413 |
Germany The Revolution of the Mind | 425 |
The Ambiguous Revolution | 426 |
Mainz Jacobins and Cisrhenane Republicans | 435 |
The Colossi of the Goethezeit | 444 |
CounterRevolutionary Cross Currents | 451 |
Britain Republicanism and the Establishment | 459 |
British Radicalism and Continental Revolution | 461 |
Clubs and Conventions | 473 |
The Levée en masse of the People of Quality | 483 |
The Abortive Irish Revolution of 1798 | 491 |
America Democracy Native and Imported | 509 |
The Other Americas Latin and British | 511 |
Which Way the New Republic? | 518 |
The Impact of the Outside World | 525 |
The Corruption of Poland | 534 |
Democracy in America | 543 |
Climax And Dénouement | 549 |
The Still Receding Mirage of the Moderates | 550 |
The Conservative CounterOffensive of 1799 | 554 |
The Revolutionary Rearousal and Victory | 561 |
Two Men on Horseback | 569 |
References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters | 577 |
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