The History of Democracy
The History of Democracy
Editor/Author
Roper, Brian S.
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Pluto Press
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ISBN: 978-0-74-533190-4
Category: Social Sciences - Political science
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In this work, Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist theoretical framework.
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world
- Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic and empire
- The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism
- The English Revolution and parliamentary democracy
- The American Revolution and constitutional redefinition of democracy
- The revolutionary revival of democracy in France
- The revolutions of 1848–49
- Capitalist expansion, globalisation and democratisation
- The Marxist critique of capitalism and representative democracy
- Precursors of socialist participatory democracy: the Paris Commune of 1871 and Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
- Bibliography