Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880

by Stephen W. Sawyer

Book Overview

An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century.

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. And in an era where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226833399
• ISBN13: 9780226833392
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"