Author : James Livesey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674006249
This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847652816
Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931041
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0195389417
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author : Wilfried Nippel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316565114
Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule.
Author : Edward James Kolla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107179548
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0465096670
From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
Author : Luciano Canfora
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1405154594
This history traces the development of democracy in Europe from its origins in ancient Greece up to the present day. Considers all the major watersheds in the development of democracy in modern Europe. Describes the rediscovery of Ancient Greek political ideals by intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century. Examines the twenty-year crisis from 1789 to 1815, when the repercussions of revolution in France were felt across the European continent. Explains how events in France led to the explosion of democratic movements between 1830 and 1848. Compares the different manifestations of democracy within Eastern and Western Europe during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Considers fascism and its consequences for democracy in Europe during the twentieth century. Demonstrates how in the recent past democracy itself has become the object of ideological battles.
Author : Christopher Hobson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
Little over 200 years ago, a quarter of a century of warfare with an 'outlaw state' brought the great powers of Europe to their knees. That state was the revolutionary democracy of France. Since then, there has been a remarkable transformation in the way democracy is understood and valued - today, it is the non-democractic states that are seen as rogue regimes. Now, Christopher Hobson explores democracy's remarkable rise from obscurity to centre stage in contemporary international relations.
