biography
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Palmer, R(obert) R(oswell)
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| (1909– )
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Cornell (1934 PhD), and taught political history at Princeton (1936–63, 1966–9) and Yale (1969). His focus on the French Revolution as the ‘shaping’ event in modern history received recognition with a Bancroft Award (1960) for The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (2 vols, 1959, 1964). |
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