Democracy denied, 1905-1915 :: intellectuals and the fate of democracy /

Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single...

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1. Verfasser: Kurzman, Charles
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (396 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-389) and index.
ISBN:9780674039858
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