Lars Behrisch (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht)

Gebundenes Buch

Democracy's Double Helix

Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Beschreibung

Where does our democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but elitist; and the idea of individual equality, emerging in the early modern period. This study explores their trajectories and their first convergence in American and French revolutions.

Autor

Lars Behrisch teaches early modern political history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on comparative European history, exploring early modern politics in its variegated societal, religious and cultural settings. He has authored two monographs in German, including Die Berechnung der Glückseligkeit. Statistik und Politik in Deutschland und Frankreich im späten Ancien Régime [The Calculation of Public Happiness: Statistics and Politics in Germany and France in the late Ancien Régime] (2016), awarded the prestigious Carl Erdmann Prize by the German Historical Association.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516317
• ISBN-10: 1316516318
• Artikelnr.: 73739105