ISBN10: 0195044797, ISBN13: 9780195044799, [publisher: Sinauer Associates Is An Imprint Of Oxford University Press Apr 2002] Softcover Neuware - Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement ofthe Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left championed democracy in therevolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945. They organized civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European democracy andthe history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound together. Geoff Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left--its successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, ...
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ISBN10: 0195044797, ISBN13: 9780195044799, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Softcover First Edition Seeking neither to praise nor condemn, this text gives a history of the European Left's successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and its formative, lasting influence on the political landscape of the West. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1016. . 2002. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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ISBN10: 0195044797, ISBN13: 9780195044799, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Softcover Seeking neither to praise nor condemn, this text gives a history of the European Left's successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and its formative, lasting influence on the political landscape of the West. Num Pages: 720 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1016. . 2002. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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