The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Vol 1: The Challenge

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subtitle: A Political History of Europe & America 1760-1800
Preface
I/The Age of the Democratic Revolution
The Revolution of Western Civilization
A Democratic Revolution: Democrat & Aristocrat in European Languages
A Preview of What Follows
II/Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies
The Diets of Eastern Europe
Councils & Estates of the Middle Zone
The Provincial Estates & Parlements of France
Parliaments & Assemblies in the British Isles & America
III/Aristocracy about 1760: Theory & Practice
Montesquieu, Réal de Curban, Blackstone, Warburton
Uses & Abuses of Social Rank
Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation & Class Consciousness
IV/Clashes w/Monarchy
The Quasi-Revolution in France 1763-74
The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden
The Hapsburg Empire
V/A Clash w/Democracy: Geneva & Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau, Voltaire & Geneva to 1762
The Social Contract 1762
The Genevese Revolution of 1768
VI/The British Parliament between King & People
The British Constitution
The 1st American Crisis: The Stamp Act
Tribulations of Parliament 1766-74
The 2nd American Crisis: Coercive Acts & Continental Congress
VII/The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict
The Revolution: Was There Any?
Anglo-America before the Revolution
The Revolution: Democracy & Aristocracy
The Revolution: Britain & Europe
VIII/The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power
The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas
Constitution-making in N Carolina, Pennsylvania & Massachusetts
A Word on the Constitution of the US
Ambivalence of the American Revolution
IX/Europe & 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 & Their Failure
The Conservatism of Edmund Burke
The Appellation of Citizen v. the Test Act
XI/Democrats & Aristocrats--Dutch, Belgian & 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 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 & 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 & Sieyès
Appendices
I/References for the Quotations at Heads of Chapters
II/Translations of Metrical Passages
III/Excerpts from Certain Basic Legal Documents
1. The Russian Charter of Nobility 1785
2. The Prussian General Code 1791
3. The Swedish Act of Union & Security 1789
4. The Polish Constitution of 1791
5. The Hungarian Coronation Oath of 1790
6. The Brabant Declaration of Independence 1789
7. The Geneva Edict of Pacification 1782
8. The Canada Act 1791
9. The Constitutions of the US 1787 & of Pennsylvania 1790
10. The French Constitution of 1789-91
IV/The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 & the French Declaration of Rights of 1789
V/Democratic & Bourgeois Characteristics in the French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications in France, Britain & America
Index