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Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850
Joanna Innes
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Description for Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850
Paperback. Charts the 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. Editor(s): Innes, Joanna; Philp, Mark. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; JPB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198738817
SKU
V9780198738817
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About Joanna Innes
Joanna Innes was educated in Britain and the United States. She has taught and researched at Oxford University for thirty years. Her interest in this subject grows out of her interest in government and political culture in Britain and elsewhere, especially during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mark Philp has taught political theory in Oxford University ... Read more
Reviews for Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850
Re-Imagining Democracy provides a fresh overview of the intellectual history of democracy around the North Atlantic across the revolutionary era ... [it] will make historians think harder about which phenomena they choose to classify as democratic . Re-Imagining Democracy merits close reading for scholars of the history of democracy and general revolutionary era.
Micah Alpaugh, H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews ... Read more
Micah Alpaugh, H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews ... Read more