Democracy on trial
Subtitle: the case for the defense : progressive evolution or revolution
By: Ricardo Lasso
Publisher: R. Lasso
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bloomington, Ind.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781450066860; 9781450066853
Subjects: Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-368) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early Anglo-Saxon England and the essence of democracy; title: The Magna Carta : a monumental but intermediate step; title: From the Magna Carta to the mother of Parliaments; title: Elizabeth I and the age of reason; title: The early seventeenth century in England : Francis Bacon's Novum Organum versus Aristotle's Organum; title: The remainder of the seventeenth century and beyond : from Oliver Cromwell to John Locke; title: An American enlightenment?; title: Spain's national unity : el siglo de oro de España and the "century of decline"; title: The ancien régime, political absolutism, and the immovable political agenda; title: Le siècle des lumières, or enlightenment in France; title: Révolution from les droits de l'homme et du citoyen to Napoleon's coup d'état; title: Eighteenth-century Spain : enlightened absolutism (absolutismo ilustrado) and beyond; title: Spanish America at the moment of its independence.