Author: France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An Authentic Copy of the New Plan of the French Constitution
Author: France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Can Democracy Work?
Author: James Miller
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374717249
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." —David Blight, The Guardian A new history of the world’s most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves—even as they manifestly failed to realize them. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished—and vexed—ideal.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374717249
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." —David Blight, The Guardian A new history of the world’s most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves—even as they manifestly failed to realize them. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished—and vexed—ideal.
Reforming Ideas in Britain
Author: Mark Philp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.
Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature
Author: Robert Watt
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bibliotheca Britannica
Author: Robert Watt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects
Author: Robert Watt
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Yea Or Nay?
Author: Stanley Alderson
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description