Democracy's Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe - Couverture rigide

Behrisch, Lars

 
9781316516317: Democracy's Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1316516318 ISBN 13 : 9781316516317
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equality, emerging during the early modern period. These two things first converged in the American and French revolutions – a convergence that was not only unexpected and unplanned but has remained fragile to this day. Democracy's Double Helix does not simply project and trace our modern democracy back into history, assuming that it was bound to come about. It looks instead at the political practices and attitudes prevailing before its emergence. From this perspective, it becomes clear that there was little to predict the coming of democracy. It also becomes clear that the two historical trajectories that formed it obey very different logics and always remain in tension. From this genuinely historical vantage point, we can therefore better understand the nature of our democracy and its current crisis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lars Behrisch teaches early modern political history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on comparative European history, exploring early modern politics in its variegated societal, religious and cultural settings. He has authored two monographs in German, including Die Berechnung der Glückseligkeit. Statistik und Politik in Deutschland und Frankreich im späten Ancien Régime [The Calculation of Public Happiness: Statistics and Politics in Germany and France in the late Ancien Régime] (2016), awarded the prestigious Carl Erdmann Prize by the German Historical Association.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1316516318
ISBN 13 
9781316516317
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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