A cultural history of democracy in the age of Enlightenment
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A cultural history of democracy in the age of Enlightenment
（The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of democracy / general editor,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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ISBN for hb set: 9781350042933
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among contemporaries, while democracy as a political system remained virtually nonexistent through much of the period. If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ideas did underwrite the democracies of succeeding centuries, they were often inheritances from monarchical governments that had encouraged plural structures of power competition. But in revolutions across France, Britain, and North America, the republican integration of constitutional principle and popular will established rational hope for public happiness. Nevertheless, the tragic clashes of principle and will in fraught revolutionary projects were also democratic legacies.
Each chapter focuses on a distinct theme: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the "common good"; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the transformations of sovereignty-a synoptic survey of the cultural entanglements of "enlightenment" and "democracy."
Table of Contents
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General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa, USA) and Anna Plassart (Open University, UK)
1. Sovereignty
Daniel Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
2. Liberty and the Rule of Law
Yoshie Kawade (University of Tokyo, Japan)
3. The "Common Good"
Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto, Canada)
4. Economic and Social Democracy
Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)
5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation
Niall O'Flaherty (King's College London, UK)
6. Citizenship and Gender
Dorinda Outram (University of Rochester, USA)
7. Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism
Inder Marwah (McMaster University, Canada)
8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance
Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa, USA)
9. International Relations
James Stafford (Columbia University, USA)
10. Beyond the Polis, Transforming Sovereignty
Joanna Innes (University of Oxford, UK)
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References
Notes on Contributors
Index
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