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Conway, Martin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Western Europe’s Democratic Age : 1945–1968 / Martin Conway. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (376 p.) : 10 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. A Democratic Age -- Chapter One. Making Democracy -- Chapter Two. Thinking Democracy -- Chapter Three. Debating Democracy -- Chapter Four. Living Democracy -- Chapter Five. Contesting Democracy -- Conclusion. Unmaking Democratic Europe -- Bibliography -- Index -- A Note On The Type restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe—and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century.Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces—primarily Christian and social democratic—that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship, which reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous and aspirational society.This democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century.Western Europe's Democratic Age is a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Europe-Politics and government-1945-. HISTORY / Europe / Western. bisacsh 20th century. Age of Extremes. Britain. British. Cold War. Dark Continent. Eric Hobsbawm. European Common Market. European Union. European postwar history. Europe’s Troubled Peace. France. French history. German history. Germany. History of postwar Europe. Italian history. Italy. Konrad Jarausch. Mark Mazower. Marshall Plan. NATO. Postwar. Spain. Spanish history. Tom Buchanan. Tony Judt. United Kingdom. West German. West Germany. history of democracy. post World War 2 Europe. post World War II Europe. twentieth century. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690088 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691204604?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691204604 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691204604/original |
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