Democracy in Europe
Subtitle: a history
By: Luciano Canfora ; translated by Simon Jones.
Series: The making of Europe
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781405111317
Subjects: Democracy -- Europe -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A constitution imbued with Hellenism; title: The beginning; title: How Greek democracy came back into play, and finally left the stage; title: Liberalism's first victory; title: Universal suffrage; title: Trouble for the "old mole"; title: Europe "on the march"; title: From the slaughter of the Communards to the "sacred unions"; title: The Third Republic; title: The second failure of universal suffrage; title: The "European civil war"; title: Progressive democracies, people's democracies; title: The Cold War; title: Towards the "mixed system"; title: Was it a new beginning?.