European Political Thought, 1815-1989

by Spencer M. Di Scala

Overview

This book presents an overview of European political thought from the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 by placing the major ideas within their historical context, including discussions of major twentieth-century totalitarian movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367007652
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments — A Note on Titles — Introduction: The Scope of Modern European Politics — From Elites to Masses — Restoration Models and Utopian Constructions, 1815-1830 — Early Liberalism — Hegel: From Civil Society to State — Jacobin Equality and National Liberation — Democracy, Society, and Liberalism — Liberal Democracy — The Class Struggle: Socialism, Communism, and Social Democracy — Anarchism — Social Science and Politics — The Authoritarian State and Antiparliamentarism — Popular Nationalism — Age of the Masses — Russian Communism — Italian Fascism — German Nazism — Opposing the One-Party State — The West: Marxism Versus Capitalism — Eastern Europe Versus the Soviet System — Models in Western European Political Thought

Editorial Reviews

An American historian and an Italian political scientist summarize the political ideas that have shaped Europe between the falls of Napoleon and the Berlin Wall. They focus on the historical context in which the ideas emerged and acted upon. Among their categories are restoration models and utopianism, liberalism from its infancy to its current apparent triumph, progress, socialism and anarchism, 19th-century Jacobinism, and the ideology of democratic national revolution. Paper edition (unseen), $20.00. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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