vol. 1, 1959; vol. 2, 1964); one-volume edition, with new introduction by David Armitage, 2014; online edition vols. 1–2; online free The World of the French Revolution (Allen & Unwin, 1971) – shorter and less scholarly treatment of The Age, vol. 2 The Improvement of Humanity: education and the French Revolution (Princeton, 1985) Translations Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution, 1789 (Princeton, 1947) [orig. 1939] The School of the French Revolution: a documentary history of the College of Louis-le-Grand and its director, Jean-François Champagne, 1762–1814 (Princeton, 1975), edited and transl. by Palmer Louis Bergeron, France Under Napoleon (Princeton, 1981) [orig. 1972] The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Hervé and Alexis de Tocqueville on the coming of the French Revolution (Princeton, 1987), ed. and transl. by Palmer Jean-Paul Bertaud, The Army of the French Revolution: from citizen-soldiers to instrument of power (Princeton, 1988) [orig. 1979] From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc-Antoine Jullien, 1775–1848 (Princeton, 1993), selected and transl. with commentary by Palmer Jean Baptiste Say, An Economist in Troubled Times: writings (Princeton, 1997), selected and transl. by Palmer Historical atlas Atlas of World History (Rand McNally, 1957; Revised ed., 1965) From 1983 the [Rand McNally] Atlas of World History, general editor R. I. Moore, is based on The Hamlyn Historical Atlas (Hamlyn, 1981). Honors and awards 1958, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1959, elected to the American Philosophical Society 1960, Bancroft Award in History, American Council of Learned Societies Special Prize 1961, served as president of the Society for French Historical Studies 1970, president of the American Historical Association 1990, Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in Rome Honorary degrees awarded by the universities of Uppsala and Toulouse References Further reading Cox, Marvin R. "Palmer and Furet: A Reassessment of The Age of the Democratic Revolution", Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): pp. 70–85 Friguglietti, James. "A Transatlantic Friendship: The Close Relationship between the Historians Georges Lefebvre and Robert R. Palmer",Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): pp. 56–69 Hanson, Paul. "From Jacobin to Liberal", Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): pp. 86–100 Harvey, John Layton. "Robert Roswell Palmer." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): 1–17. online Kramer, Lloyd. "Robert R. Palmer and the History of Big Questions", Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): pp. 101–22 Layton Harvey, John. "Introduction: Robert Roswell Palmer: A Transatlantic Journey of American Liberalism", Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 37.3 (2011): 1–17. online Harvey, John Layton. "'History Written with