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Title Democracy in modern Europe : a conceptual history / edited by Jussi Kurunmäki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages)
Series European conceptual history
European conceptual history.
Contents 'Democracy' from book to life : the emergence of the term in active political debate, to 1848 / Joanna Innes and Mark Philp -- Democracy and the strange death of mixed government in the nineteenth century : Great Britain, France and the Netherlands / Henk te Velde -- Another 'Sonderweg'? : the historical semantics of 'democracy' in Germany / Jörn Leonhard -- Birthplaces of democracy : the rhetoric of democratic tradition in Switzerland and Sweden / Jussi Kurunmäki & Irene Herrmann -- Concepts of democracy from a Russian perspective : debates in the late imperial period (1905-1917) / Benjamin Beuerle -- Conceptual history of democracy in Spain since 1800 / Javier Fernandez-Sebastian and Jose Maria Rosales -- The First World War, the Russian Revolution and varieties of democracy in northwest European debates / Pasi Ihalainen -- The edges of democracy : German, British and American debates on the dictatorial challenges to democracy in the interwar years / Marcus Llanque -- A nation allied with history : Czech ideas of democracy, 1890-1948 / Peter Bugge -- Democracy in Western Europe after 1945 / Martin Conway -- Political participation and democratization in the 1960s : the concept of participatory democracy and its repercussions / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- Democracy and European integration : a transnational history of the Danish debate / Jeppe Nevers
Summary 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 Industrial Revolutions of the nineteenth century through both world wars and the rise of welfare states to the present era of the European Union. Exploring individual countries as well as regional dynamics, this volume comprises a tightly organized, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date exploration of a foundational issue in European political and intellectual history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2018)
Subject Democracy -- Europe -- History
Political anthropology -- Europe
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Democracy
Political anthropology
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kurunmäki, Jussi, editor
Nevers, Jeppe, 1978- editor.
Velde, Henk te, 1959- editor.
LC no. 2018024204
ISBN 9781785338489
178533848X