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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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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.
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