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Agents of the people : democracy and popular sovereignty in British and Swedish parliamentary and public debates, 1734-1800 /
This book on the pre-history of democratization shows how and why more modern attitudes to democracy started to emerge in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the language of parliamentarians, the author reconstructs and compares debates on the political role and representation of the people in...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies in the history of political thought ;
v. 4. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- British and Swedish Parliamentary Debates in a Comparative Study of Political Vocabularies
- Variations in British Parliamentary Conceptions of the People, 1734-1771
- The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty and Representative Democracy Exist in Sweden before 1772?
- The Re-Evaluation of the Representation of the People and Democracy in Westminster, 1772-1789
- Reactions to the Revolutionary Concepts of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Westminster, 1789-1800.