Democracy: A Short, Analytical History: A Short, Analytical History / Edition 1

by Roland N. Stromberg

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563247620
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/1996
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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;