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The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Vol. I: The Challenge
by R.R. Palmer
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691005699
- ISBN 13
- 9780691005690
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 534 pages, with index and appendices, one of which provides excerpts from constitutions and other basic documents of several countries. Volume I of a two-book series; Volume II, The Struggle, is Berthoff Books inventory No. WBB-766. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, wraps a little age-toned, light foxing to top edge, spine sunned and has water stain, tan stain from newspaper clipping on two pages of ToC. Name of former onwer written on ffep, only one mark to interior pages observed - an item circled in the ToC.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-763
- Title
- The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. Vol. I: The Challenge
- Author
- R.R. Palmer
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691005699
- ISBN 13
- 9780691005690
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, N.J
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- FRENCH REVOLUTION, ENLIGHTENMENT, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, DEMOCRACY, BOURGEOISIE, EUROPEAN ARISTOCRACY, CONSTITUTIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History; American History; Politics;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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- Sunned
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