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Robert Roswell Palmer

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American historian (1909-2002)

United StatesWritersLived 1909 to 2002 · aged 93
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Robert Roswell Palmer was an American historian. Specializing in eighteenth-century France, he is best known for The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, which examined the Atlantic Revolutions, an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas...

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1987Henry Allen Moe Prize
1965honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
1960Bancroft Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Edmund S. MorganAlso won Henry Allen Moe PrizeDieter GrimmAlso won honorary doctor of the University of ToulouseJacqueline JonesAlso won Bancroft PrizeRichard B. MorrisAlso won Bancroft PrizeAlexander S. WienerAlso won honorary doctor of the University of ToulouseJohn O'MalleyAlso won Henry Allen Moe Prize

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Robert Roswell Palmer was an American historian. Specializing in eighteenth-century France, he is best known for The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, which 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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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1909 to 2002 · aged 93
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