Where does our democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but elitist; and the idea of individual equality, emerging in the early modern period. This study explores their trajectories and their first convergence in American and French revolutions.
Where does our democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but elitist; and the idea of individual equality, emerging in the early modern period. This study explores their trajectories and their first convergence in American and French revolutions.
Lars Behrisch teaches early modern political history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on comparative European history, exploring early modern politics in its variegated societal, religious and cultural settings. He has authored two monographs in German, including Die Berechnung der Glückseligkeit. Statistik und Politik in Deutschland und Frankreich im späten Ancien Régime [The Calculation of Public Happiness: Statistics and Politics in Germany and France in the late Ancien Régime] (2016), awarded the prestigious Carl Erdmann Prize by the German Historical Association.
Inhaltsangabe
A new history of the birth of modern democracy Part I. State-building and Political Participation: 1. Medieval states and estates 2. Sixteenth-century origins of the fiscal-military state 3. Patterns and mutations of early modern participation Part II. Notions and Practices of Equality: 4. Reformation and confessional pluralism 5. Trade, markets, capitalism 6. Natural law and individual rights 7. States, subjects, citizens 8. The Enlightenment Part III. Revolutionary Convergences: 9. An explosive Atlantic triangle 10. The American Revolution 11. The French Revolution From past to future.
A new history of the birth of modern democracy Part I. State-building and Political Participation: 1. Medieval states and estates 2. Sixteenth-century origins of the fiscal-military state 3. Patterns and mutations of early modern participation Part II. Notions and Practices of Equality: 4. Reformation and confessional pluralism 5. Trade, markets, capitalism 6. Natural law and individual rights 7. States, subjects, citizens 8. The Enlightenment Part III. Revolutionary Convergences: 9. An explosive Atlantic triangle 10. The American Revolution 11. The French Revolution From past to future.
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