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

    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