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Toward democracy : the struggle for self-rule in European and American thought /
The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Toward Democracy, James T. Kloppenberg explores this story of ideas, focusing on the evolution of democracy in Britain's North American colonies and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Born in bloodshed: the origins of democracy
- Voices in the wilderness: democracies in North America
- Democracy deferred: the English Civil War
- Coup d-Etat: 1688 in England and America
- Sympathy, will, and democracy in the enlightenments of Europe
- Faith, enlightenment, and resistance in America
- Democracy and American independence
- Constituting American democracy
- Ratification and reciprocity
- Delusions of unity and collisions with tradition in the French revolution
- Virtue and violence in the French revolution
- Democracy in the wake of terror
- Diagnosing democratic cultures in America and Europe
- The tragic irony of democracy.