...The period of about a year beginning late in 1797 was the high point of the whole decade, and indeed of all European history until 1848, in the matter of international agitation stirred up by the revolutionary-democratic movement. This chapter attempts to recapture this moment of excitement...

... Condorcet bourgeoisie the radicalism radicals English Esterhazy Valentin Netherlands Belgium Switzerland democratic movements revolution constituted bodies Do we see in the Austrian Netherlands, or in the United Netherlands … that confidence in one another, and in the common people, which enabled...

...The forces of aristocracy, which in some countries in the 1780s prevailed over democratic movements, prevailed in others over monarchy itself. This chapter takes up a thread left hanging at the close of Chapter IV. It was shown there that, by the middle 1770s, or just before the American Revolution...