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Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism /

This book brings together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baehr, P. R. (Peter R.), Richter, Melvin, 1921-2020
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter
  • Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries
  • From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch
  • The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning
  • Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay
  • Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter
  • Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver
  • Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy : the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire / Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, totalitarianism : twentieth-century experiences and reflections
  • Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr
  • The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana
  • From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick
  • Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward
  • The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan
  • Part III. Ancient resonances
  • Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet
  • From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein.