1st Edition
Democracy: A Short, Analytical History A Short, Analytical History
By Roland N. Stromberg
Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are neccessary for it to exist. This encompasses a comprehensive literature which the author seeks to summarise and present to the reader in accessible form. It is appropriate material for course reading in Westen civilisation, intellectual history, political thought, and philosophy.
Chapter 1 Defining Democracy; Chapter 2 Democracy’s Classical Image; Chapter 3 Democracy’s Nineteenth-Century Advance; Chapter 4 The Late Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Democracy; Chapter 5 The Continuing Crisis of Democracy; Chapter 6 Democracy at Bay between the World Wars; Chapter 7 World War II and After: Democracy in Low Key; Chapter 8 Democracy in the Contemporary World; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
Roland N. Stromberg