Democracy in modern Europe
a conceptual history
- ISBN: 9781836950486
- Editorial: Berghahn Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: European Conceptual History
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 312
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
Introduction Jussi Kurunmäki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde
Chapter 1. ‘Democracy’ from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848 Joanna Innes and Mark Philp
Chapter 2. Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands Henk te Velde
Chapter 3. Another ‘Sonderweg’? The Historical Semantics of ‘Democracy’ in Germany Jörn Leonhard Chapter 4. Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden Jussi Kurunmäki and Irène Herrmann
Chapter 5. Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905–17) Benjamin Beuerle
Chapter 6. A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800 Javier Fernández-Sebastián and José María Rosales
Chapter 7. The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates Pasi Ihalainen
Chapter 8. The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years Marcus Llanque
Chapter 9. A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890–1948 Peter Bugge
Chapter 10. Democracy in Western Europe after 1945 Martin Conway
Chapter 11. Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
Chapter 12. Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate Jeppe Nevers
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