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Robert Roswell Palmer was born on 11 January, 1909 in France, is an American historian (1909–2002). Discover Robert Roswell Palmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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1760

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.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Palmer accelerated through the public schools.

Palmer's most important work of historical scholarship is The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800.

1909

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

1931

By winning a citywide contest for a play written in Latin, he earned a full scholarship to the University of Chicago where he studied with the historian Louis Gottschalk and earned his bachelor's degree (Ph.B.) in 1931.

He received his Ph.D. in History from Cornell University three years later, studying with Carl L. Becker.

1934

His dissertation was The French Idea of American Independence on the Eve of the French Revolution – "published/created" 1934.

1936

Palmer began teaching at Princeton University as an instructor in 1936, and worked there for nearly three decades, becoming a full professor.

1941

The 1941 monograph Twelve Who Ruled is also noteworthy.

1942

Palmer married Esther Howard in 1942, and they had three children and four grandchildren.

His son, the historian Stanley Palmer, is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington.

1950

In 1950 Palmer published A History of the Modern World, which is in its eleventh edition as of 2013.

1956

(Joel Colton is a co-author from 1956 the 2nd edition, and Lloyd Kramer is coauthor from 2002, the 9th ed.) The text has been translated into six languages and is used in more than 1000 colleges and many AP European History high school courses.

It is notable for its clear, essay-like writing style.

Palmer's introduction covers the period from the earliest signs of human civilization to 1300 CE.

The main body of the text covers events from the Black Death to the Fall of the Soviet Union in European history.

The book is organized partly by ideas: for example, the relation of the French Revolution to modern and ancient thought may be mentioned before the French Revolution.

1959

It was published by Princeton in two volumes: The Challenge (1959), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, and The Struggle (1964).

Palmer's masterwork traced the growth of two competing forces – ideas of democracy and equality, on the one hand, and the growing power of aristocracies in society, on the other – and the results of the collision between these forces, including both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Thus it foreshadowed the development of "comparative Atlantic history" as a field.

It remains a valuable resource for scholars.

1963

He was dean of arts and sciences (1963–1966) at Washington University in St. Louis, then returned to teaching and writing at Yale, where he retired as professor emeritus.

Palmer had visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Berkeley, Chicago, Colorado and Michigan.

1971

In 1971 Palmer published a slightly revised and condensed version of the second volume as The World of the French Revolution.

1977

After retiring in 1977, he returned to Princeton as a guest scholar at its Institute for Advanced Study.

1983

From 1983 the [Rand McNally] Atlas of World History, general editor R. I. Moore, is based on The Hamlyn Historical Atlas (Hamlyn, 1981).

1989

It has been in print since its first edition, was reissued with a new preface in 1989 for the French Revolution bicentennial, and was reissued as a Princeton Classic in 2005 as part of the University Press centennial celebration.

The book is a fusion of history and collective biography, focusing on the members of the Committee of Public Safety and their efforts to guide France during the Terror following their Revolution.

Columbia University history professor Isser Woloch, a specialist in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, has stated that Twelve Who Ruled "may be the best book on the French Revolution written by an American."

2002

After R.R. Palmer's death in 2002 at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a memorial service was held at Princeton Chapel.