A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment b... - 9781350440050

Name: A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment b... - 9781350440050
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of EnlightenmentAuthor(s): Michael Mosher, Anna Plassart, Eugenio Biagini\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350440050, 978-1350440050\nSynopsis\nThis volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among contemporaries, while democracy as a political system remained virtually nonexistent through much of the period. If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ideas did underwrite the democracies of succeeding centuries, they were often inheritances from monarchical governments that had encouraged plural structures of power competition. But in revolutions across France, Britain, and North America, the.