There was in fact, throughout the New Republican Order (in Europe) a good deal of peasant discontent...
...in Europe, in contrast to America, revolutionary republicanism was a movement of townspeople, and conservative attitudes largely agrarian...
...mass rural discontent, (but) to recruit hold it, it would have been necessary to offer positive expectations about the future...
But to deal adequately with real agrarian grievances would have been to propose another kind of revolution, which the conservative ideology and leadership could not do.
Palmer, Struggle 556, 557
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