Re-Imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850

by Mark Philp

Book Overview

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions charts a transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. In the mid-eighteenth century, 'democracy' was a word known only to the literate. It was associated primarily with the ancient world and had negative connotations: democracies were conceived to be unstable, warlike, and prone to mutate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198738811
• ISBN13: 9780198738817
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"