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R. R. Palmer, circa 1953

Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), examined the Atlantic Revolutions, an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.

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Robert Roswell Palmer

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Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century...

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A History of the Modern World

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distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities Robert Roswell Palmer in 1950. The work has since been extended by Joel Colton (from its...

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Freemasonry

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a scientifically ordered universe. On the other hand, historian Robert Roswell Palmer noted that lodges operated separately and Masons politically did...

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Revolutionary wave

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subjects of study by historians and political philosophers, including Robert Roswell Palmer, Crane Brinton, Hannah Arendt, Eric Hoffer, and Jacques Godechot...

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Woodrow Wilson

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Mitchell Palmer, began to target anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World members, and other antiwar groups in what became known as the Palmer Raids....

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Van Schaack "C. V. S." Roosevelt and Margaret Barnhill, and a brother of Robert Roosevelt and James A. Roosevelt. Martha was the younger daughter of Major...

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Pospolite ruszenie

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"Pospolite ruszenie". WIEM, darmowa encyklopedia. Retrieved 2012-04-16. Robert Roswell Palmer (1 April 1970). The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political...

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List of literary initials

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Stevenson R. L. Stine – Robert Lawrence Stine R. M. Ballantyne – Robert Michael Ballantyne R. R. Palmer – Robert Roswell Palmer R. S. Thomas – Ronald Stuart...

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Robert Darnton

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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director...

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Jacques Godechot

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revolution'. In 1955, Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at...

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Cornell University Department of History

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members Carl L. Becker and Mary Beth Norton, as well as alumnus Robert Roswell Palmer. In 1887, the Department was renamed the President White School...

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1903) In 1901, an alternate history by Robert Conroy, the main character is a young United States Army officer named Patrick...

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Feltrinelli Prize

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000) Giuseppe Attardi 1990 International Prize (L. 150.000.000) Robert Roswell Palmer 1991 International Prize (L. 150.000.000) Alfred Edward Ringwood...

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Deaths in June 2002

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American theater director. Jürgen Kraft, 50, German racing cyclist. Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer. Bill Blass, 79, American fashion...

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Henry Adams

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"peppered with a variety of antisemitic remarks", according to historian Robert Michael, as in the following citations from historian Edward Saveth: "We...

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American Historical Association

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Hajo Holborn (1967) John K. Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) R. R. Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971, died before completing his term as president)...

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French Directory

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sum of thirty milliards in paper within fifteen months. In 1971, Robert Roswell Palmer wrote: The Directory became a kind of ineffective dictatorship....

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Eric Foner

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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Lynn Thorndike

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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Samuel Eliot Morison

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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John King Fairbank

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Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, et al., The I. G. In Peking Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap...

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George Bancroft

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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Andrew Dickson White

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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Norman Itzkowitz

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Itzkowitz's work is collaborative, he did much of his studies with Robert Roswell Palmer, Gordon Craig, Cyril E. Black, his Ottoman history mentor Lewis...

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1782 in literature

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remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789. Simon and Schuster. p. 887. Robert Roswell Palmer (1961). Catholics & Unbelievers in Eighteenth Century France. Cooper...

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Anthony Grafton

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Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran...

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