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Charts the 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.
List of contents
INTRODUCTIONJoanna Innes and Mark Philp: ; AMERICA; 1 Seth Cotlar: Languages of Democracy in America from the Revolution to the Election of 1800; 2 Adam I.P. Smith: 'The Fortunate Banner': Languages of Democracy in the United States, c. 1848; 3 Laura Edwards: The Contradictions of Democracy in American Institutions and Practices; FRANCE; 4 Ruth Scurr: Varieties of Democracy in the French Revolution; 5 Michael Drolet: Nineteenth-Century French Political Thought and the Problem of the General Will; 6 Malcolm Crook: Elections and Democracy in France, 1789-1848; BRITAIN; 7 Mark Philp: Talking about Democracy: Britain in the 1790s; 8 Joanna Innes, Mark Philp and Robert Saunders: The Rise of Democratic Discourse in the Reform Era: Britain in the 1830s and 40s; 9 Joanna Innes: People and Power in British Politics to 1850; IRELAND; 10 Ultan Gillen: Constructing Democratic Thought in Ireland, 1775 - 1800; 11 Laurent Colantonio: 'Democracy' and the Irish People 1830-48; 12 Sean Connolly: The Limits of Democracy: Ireland 1778-1848; SYNERGIESJoanna Innes and Mark Philp:
About the author
Joanna Innes was educated in Britain and the United States. She has taught and researched at Oxford University for thirty years. Her interest in this subject grows out of her interest in government and political culture in Britain and elsewhere, especially during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Mark Philp has taught political theory in Oxford University for thirty years and has worked extensively on the political thinking and social movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, and on methodological approaches to the study of political ideas.
The editors have co-organised a collaborative enquiry into the wider issues this book addresses since 2004. They are currently extending their collaborative project to examine similar issues in southern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Summary
Charts the 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.
Additional text
Re-Imagining Democracy provides a fresh overview of the intellectual history of democracy around the North Atlantic across the revolutionary era ... [it] will make historians think harder about which phenomena they choose to classify as "democratic". Re-Imagining Democracy merits close reading for scholars of the history of democracy and general revolutionary era.
