Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions
Author :
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 253
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780191646614
ISBN-13 : 019164661X
Rating : 4/5 (61X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions by : Joanna Innes

Download or read book Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions written by Joanna Innes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. In the mid-eighteenth century, 'democracy' was a word known only to the literate. It was associated primarily with the ancient world and had negative connotations: democracies were conceived to be unstable, warlike, and prone to mutate into despotisms. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the word had passed into general use, although it was still not necessarily an approving term. In fact, there was much debate about whether democracy could achieve robust institutional form in advanced societies. In this volume, a cast of internationally-renowned contributors shows how common trends developed throughout the United States, France, Britain, and Ireland, particularly focussing on the era of the American, French, and subsequent European revolutions. Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions argues that 'modern democracy' was not invented in one place and then diffused elsewhere, but instead was the subject of parallel re-imaginings, as ancient ideas and examples were selectively invoked and reworked for modern use. The contributions significantly enhance our understanding of the diversity and complexity of our democratic inheritance.


Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions Related Books

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Joanna Innes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-27 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

GET EBOOK

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years bet
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Margaret Fuller
Categories: Social history
Type: BOOK - Published: 1845 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

More Than Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 530
Authors: Stephen Kantrowitz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-30 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

A major new account of the Northern movement to establish African Americans as full citizens before, during, and after the Civil War In More Than Freedom, award
Black Women Abolitionists
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Shirley J. Yee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

GET EBOOK

Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
American Radicals
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Holly Jackson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-08 - Publisher: Crown

GET EBOOK

A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in