Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

by Geoff Eley

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195044797

ISBN13:9780195044799

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:720 Pages

Weight:2.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Communism & Socialism Conservatism & Liberalism Europe History Ireland Political History Political Ideologies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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