Democracy in Modern Europe : : A Conceptual History /

Democracy in Modern Europe : : A Conceptual History / / ed. by Jussi Kurunmäki, Jeppe Nevers, Henk te Velde.

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As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the In...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Beuerle, Benjamin,
Bugge, Peter,
Conway, Martin,
Fernández-Sebastián, Javier,
Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid,
Herrmann, Irène,
Ihalainen, Pasi,
Innes, Joanna,
Kurunmäki, Jussi,
Leonhard, Jörn,
Llanque, Marcus,
María Rosales, José,
Nevers, Jeppe,
Philp, Mark,
Velde, Henk te,
HerausgeberIn:
Kurunmäki, Jussi,
Nevers, Jeppe,
Velde, Henk te,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:European Conceptual History ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 ‘Democracy’ from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848
  • Chapter 2 Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands
  • Chapter 3 Another ‘Sonderweg’? The Historical Semantics of ‘Democracy’ in Germany
  • Chapter 4 Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden
  • Chapter 5 Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905–17)
  • Chapter 6 A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800
  • Chapter 7 The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates
  • Chapter 8 The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years
  • Chapter 9 A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890–1948
  • Chapter 10 Democracy in Western Europe after 1945
  • Chapter 11 Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions
  • Chapter 12 Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate
  • Index

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