This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon
operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies
in the nineteenth-century world. In the long nineteenth century,
democracy evolved from a contested, maligned conception of
government with little concrete expression at the level of the
state, to a term widely associated with good governance throughout
the diverse political cultures of the Atlantic world and beyond.
The geographical scope and public range of discussions about the
meaning of democracy in this era were unprecedented in comparison
to previous centuries. These lively debates involved fundamental
questions about human nature, and encompassed subjects ranging from
the scope of the people who would participate in self-government to
the importance of social and economic issues. For these reasons,
the nineteenth century has proven the formative century in the
modern history of democracy. Each chapter takes a different theme
as its focus: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the
“common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the
principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender;
ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions,
and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the
polis. These ten different approaches to democracy in the
nineteenth century add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the
subject.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Cultural Histories Series |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Editors: |
Tom Brooking
• Todd M Thompson
|
| Series editors: |
Eugenio Biagini
|
| Dimensions: |
244 x 169mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-44004-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-350-44004-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781350440043 |
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