Toward Democracy : The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought.

Cover -- Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Paradoxes of Democracy -- PART I: Roots and Branches -- Chapter 1: Born in Bloodshed: The Origins of Democracy -- Chapter 2: Voices in the Wilderness: Democracies in North America -- Chapter 3: Democracy Deferred: The English Civil War -- Chapter 4: Coup d'Etat: 1688 in England and America -- PART II: Trial and Error -- Chapter 5: Sympathy, Will, and Democracy in the Enlightenments of Europe -- Chapter 6: Faith, Enlightenment, and Resistance in America -- Chapter 7: Democracy and American Independence -- Chapter 8: Constituting American Democracy -- Chapter 9: Ratification and Reciprocity -- PART III: Failure in Success -- Chapter 10: Delusions of Unity and Collisions with Tradition in the French Revolution -- Chapter 11: Virtue and Violence in the French Revolution -- Chapter 12: Democracy in the Wake of Terror -- Chapter 13: Diagnosing Democratic Cultures in America and Europe -- Chapter 14: The Tragic Irony of Democracy -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- INDEX.

James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals have shifted over time and place.

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