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Article: Revolutions, Age of
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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REVOLUTIONS, AGE OF
REVOLUTIONS, AGE OF.
At the end of the eighteenth century a series of revolutions broke out on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 1960s the
historians R. R. Palmer and Jacques Godechot argued that these were not discrete revolutions but manifestations
of a single democratic revolution common to the entire Atlantic world. In fact, eighteenth-century revolutions shared a common language but little else, and each had significant unique features. Moreover, once the Revolution of 1789 broke out in France, the democratic features of this supposedly single Atlantic revolution ebbed away. The French Revolution was not inherently more radical than any of the others, but ...
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