The Local Acts of a National Parliament: Parliament's Role in Sanctioning Local Action in Eighteenth‐Century Britain
In: Parliamentary history, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 23-47
ISSN: 1750-0206
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In: Parliamentary history, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 23-47
ISSN: 1750-0206
In: Parliamentary history, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 286-292
ISSN: 1750-0206
In: Journal of historical sociology, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 182-211
ISSN: 1467-6443
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 194-a-194
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 179-183
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 553, Heft 1, S. 217-218
ISSN: 1552-3349
Re-imagining Democracy looks back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and argues this era marked the beginnings of modern democracy in the Mediterranean. These essays, from some of the leading scholars in the field, expose readers to new research and ideas regarding the complex and variegated history of democracy.
In: Past and present publications
In: Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions, S. 1-10
In: Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions, S. 190-212
In: The economic history review, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 838
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 473
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Parliamentary history, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 312-321
ISSN: 1750-0206
"This book explores the ways in which people in Latin America and the Caribbean joined with others in Europe and the United States to re-imagine the ancient term "democracy", so as to give it relevance and power in the modern world. In all these regions, that process largely followed the French Revolution; in Latin America it more especially followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s. The book looks at how a variety of political actors and commentators used the term to characterize or argue about modern conditions through the ensuing half-century; by 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region. Following introductory scene-setting and overview chapters, specialists contribute wide-ranging accounts of aspects of the context in which the word was "re-imagined"; six final chapters explore differences in its fortune from place to place"--