Toward democracy : the struggle for self-rule in European and American thought / James T. Kloppenberg.
2016
321.8 K66t 2016
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Title
Toward democracy : the struggle for self-rule in European and American thought / James T. Kloppenberg.
ISBN
9780195054613 (acid-free paper)
019505461X (acid-free paper)
019505461X (acid-free paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Language
English
Description
xiv, 892 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
321.8 K66t 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)921864707
(OCoLC)921864707
(OCoLC)921864707
Summary
The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Toward Democracy, James T. Kloppenberg explores this story of ideas, focusing on the evolution of democracy in Britain's North American colonies and then in the United States. By concentrating on historical figures whose pivotal texts and framed arguments helped form the concept of democracy, he examines how American ideas and practices both descended and diverged from earlier European, and particularly English, models. Kloppenberg also shows how American thought, in return, profoundly influenced European ideas about democracy-both negatively and positively. Toward Democracy presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who helped to form its principles. Kloppenberg neither condemns nor endorses these thinkers, but rather offers a fresh look at how these initial democratic ideals have shifted over time. He argues that democracy has remained an ethical model rather than a mere set of institutions, and sheds light on the many failures faced by democracy and its advocates. This discrepancy-between intentions and results-constitutes the tragic irony of democracy. From the beginnings of democracy in the ancient world, through the Enlightenment, and past the French Revolution, James T. Kloppenberg's authoritative work traces the transformation of democracy over centuries, and reveals how nations have repeatedly failed in their attempts to construct democratic societies based on the autonomy and reciprocity they so prized. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Born in bloodshed: the origins of democracy
Voices in the wilderness: democracies in North America
Democracy deferred: the English Civil War
Coup d-Etat: 1688 in England and America
Sympathy, will, and democracy in the enlightenments of Europe
Faith, enlightenment, and resistance in America
Democracy and American independence
Constituting American democracy
Ratification and reciprocity
Delusions of unity and collisions with tradition in the French revolution
Virtue and violence in the French revolution
Democracy in the wake of terror
Diagnosing democratic cultures in America and Europe
The tragic irony of democracy.
Voices in the wilderness: democracies in North America
Democracy deferred: the English Civil War
Coup d-Etat: 1688 in England and America
Sympathy, will, and democracy in the enlightenments of Europe
Faith, enlightenment, and resistance in America
Democracy and American independence
Constituting American democracy
Ratification and reciprocity
Delusions of unity and collisions with tradition in the French revolution
Virtue and violence in the French revolution
Democracy in the wake of terror
Diagnosing democratic cultures in America and Europe
The tragic irony of democracy.
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