Toward Democracy The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought

Name: Toward Democracy The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
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ISBN: 9780195054613

ISBN-10: 019505461X

ISBN-13: 9780195054613

Edition: 2016

Authors: James T. Kloppenberg

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/3/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 912
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.42" long x 2.40" tall
Weight: 3.410
Language: English