Format:
1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781849647144
Content:
A critique of liberal democracy, from ancient Athens to today
Content:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world -- Introduction -- The historical emergence of Athenian democracy -- Class struggle in the Ancient Greek polis -- Cleisthenes' reforms: establishing demokratia -- Peasant citizens, class struggle and democracy -- The suppression of democracy from 322-1 BC -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 2 Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic and empire -- Introduction -- The historical origins and development of the Roman republic from 509 to 27 BC -- Roman territorial expansion -- The economic and social structure of Roman society -- The political institutions of the Roman republic and the 'conflict of orders' -- The 'mixed constitution' of the Roman republic: democracy or oligarchy? -- From the principate to the fall of the Roman empire, 27 BC to 476 AD -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 3 The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism -- Introduction -- The early Middle Ages and the emergence of feudalism in Europe -- Historical retrogression during the early Middle Ages -- The origins of feudalism in Western Europe -- The central features of feudalism -- The growth of feudalism -- The crisis of feudalism and the emergence of absolutism in France and capitalism in England -- The crisis of feudalism -- French absolutism -- Explaining the emergence of capitalism in England -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 4 The English Revolution and parliamentary democracy -- Introduction -- The English Revolution and civil war, 1640-59 -- English society in the mid-seventeenth century: population, class, gender and religion -- The historical origins of the English Parliament -- Background and context, 1603-40
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Parliamentary rebellion, civil war and the Levellers, 1640-49 -- The republic and protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, 1650-59 -- From the restoration of 1660 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 5 The American Revolution and constitutional redefinition of democracy -- Introduction -- The American Revolution 1775-87 -- Background and context -- Narrative of events -- The constitutional redefinition of democracy, 1787-91 -- The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 -- Ratification of the Constitution: federalists versus anti-federalists -- The historical novelty of representative democracy -- Completing the revolution: civil war 1861-65 -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 6 The revolutionary revival of democracy in France -- Introduction -- Background and context -- Classes, clergy, monarchy -- Enlightenment philosophy -- Long and short-term causes of the revolution -- Narrative of events -- The revolt of the nobility -- The bourgeois revolution of 1789 -- The revolutionary Jacobin government and the popular movement, 1792-95 -- The Jacobin Constitution of 1793 -- 1795: The fall of the Jacobins and the Thermidorian reaction -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 7 The revolutions of 1848-49 -- Introduction -- Background and causes -- A wave of revolution sweeps Europe -- The June insurrection -- The Conservative counter-revolution -- Springtime of the peoples -- Conclusion: The historical legacy of the 1848 revolutions -- Guide to further reading -- 8 Capitalist expansion, globalisation and democratisation -- Introduction -- Capitalist expansion on a global scale -- The key characteristics of representative democracy -- The development of representative democracy in the advanced capitalist societies and the growing geographical spread of representative democracy
Content:
The impact of globalisation on representative democracy -- Conclusion -- Guide to further reading -- 9 The Marxist critique of capitalism and representative democracy -- Introduction -- The Marxist critique of capitalism -- Exploitation and inequality -- Environment -- Competition, imperialism and war -- Crisis -- Oppression -- Alienation -- The democratic swindle -- The social and economic context of representative democracy -- The institutional mechanisms of representative democracy -- Conclusion: exploitation, alienation and democracy -- Guide to further reading -- 10 Precursors of socialist participatory democracy: the Paris Commune 1871 and Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 -- Introduction -- The Paris Commune 1871 -- Classical Marxist interpretations of the Commune -- The Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917: workers' power -- Historical context -- The 1905 Revolution -- War, crisis and revolution -- The February Revolution and dual power -- The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution -- Was the Russian Revolution a 'Bolshevik coup'? -- The new workers' state: constructing socialism? -- The Stalinist degeneration of the Russian Revolution -- Conclusion: socialism and democracy beyond capitalism -- Guide to further reading -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745331898
Additional Edition:
Print version Roper, Brian S The History of Democracy : A Marxist Interpretation London : Pluto Press,c2012 ISBN 9780745331898
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English
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