Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 ‘Democracy’ from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848 16
5. Chapter 2 Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands 42
6. Chapter 3 Another ‘Sonderweg’? The Historical Semantics of ‘Democracy’ in Germany 65
7. Chapter 4 Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden 88
8. Chapter 5 Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905–17) 113
9. Chapter 6 A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800 135
10. Chapter 7 The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates 160
11. Chapter 8 The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years 182
12. Chapter 9 A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890–1948 208
13. Chapter 10 Democracy in Western Europe after 1945 231
14. Chapter 11 Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions 257
15. Chapter 12 Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate 281
16. Index 300