THE COMMITMENTS OF DEMOCRACY

It underplays the significance of James Kloppenberg's monumentally ambitious and massively learned Toward Democracy to call it a big book—though at seven hundred pages of text, a hundred pages of notes and another five hundred pages of additional endnotes online it is surely that. It is, in voi...

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Published inModern intellectual history Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 593 - 598
Main Author RODGERS, DANIEL T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2019
Subjects
Democracy
Forum on James Kloppenberg's Toward Democracy
Kloppenberg, James T
Narratives
Philosophers
Plot (Narrative)
Politics
Principles
Sovereignty
New York
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
Europe
England
France
North America
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Summary:It underplays the significance of James Kloppenberg's monumentally ambitious and massively learned Toward Democracy to call it a big book—though at seven hundred pages of text, a hundred pages of notes and another five hundred pages of additional endnotes online it is surely that. It is, in voice and subject, several books in one. The first is a sweeping narrative account of the struggles for self-rule in England, the United States, and France from the seventeenth century through the middle third of the nineteenth century. The great revolutions stand at this history's center—the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s, the British North Americans’ revolt against monarchy and their construction of an enduring kingless polity in the 1770s and 1780s, and the revolutionary upheaval in France in the years after 1789—their origins, struggles, and dramas etched with a skilled narrative historian's hand.
ISSN:1479-2443
1479-2451
DOI:10.1017/S1479244317000427