Early Modern Democracy In The Grisons
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Early Modern Democracy In The Grisons
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Author : Randolph C. Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-09
Early Modern Democracy In The Grisons written by Randolph C. Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-09 with History categories.
A 1995 study of one of the most unusual political entities in early modern Europe, in the Swiss Alps.
Making Archives In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Randolph C. Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Making Archives In Early Modern Europe written by Randolph C. Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with History categories.
Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.
Making Archives In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Randolph C. Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Making Archives In Early Modern Europe written by Randolph C. Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with History categories.
European states were overwhelmed with information around 1500. Their agents sought to organize their overflowing archives to provide trustworthy evidence and comprehensive knowledge that was useful in the everyday exercise of power. This detailed comparative study explores cases from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin in order to understand how changing information technologies and ambitious programs of state-building challenged record-keepers to find new ways to organize and access the information in their archives. From the intriguing details of how clerks invented new ways to index and catalog the expanding world to the evolution of new perspectives on knowledge and power among philologists and historians, this book provides illuminating vignettes and revealing comparisons about a core technology of governance in early modern Europe. Enhanced by perspectives from the history of knowledge and from archival science, this wide-ranging study explores the potential and the limitations of knowledge management as media technologies evolved.
Democracy And Anti Democracy In Early Modern England 1603 1689
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Author : Cesare Cuttica
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-18
Democracy And Anti Democracy In Early Modern England 1603 1689 written by Cesare Cuttica and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-18 with History categories.
This volume offers a new and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of democratic ideas and practices in early modern England.
The Valtellina And Unesco
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Author : Thomas J. Puleo
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012
The Valtellina And Unesco written by Thomas J. Puleo and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. The Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, is known for being unusually fertile for its elevation and latitude, and for the dry stone terraces on its steep hillsides that make this fertility possible. ProVinea, a local nonprofit, has applied to UNESCO to inscribe these landscapes onto its World Heritage list, representing the construction and use of the terraces as the heroic transformation of barren slopes into fertile fields. Drawing on Michel Serres' theory of serial parasitism, this study demonstrates how ProVinea discursively and materially remakes the landscapes by culling the advantageous, eliminating the detrimental, and assembling the dispersed. A casualty of this process is a more complex and complete truth, one that this book aims to restore, while also acknowledging the validity of World Heritage's efforts to build a global culture and ProVinea's desire to connect to it.
The Deep Roots Of Modern Democracy
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Author : John Gerring
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Deep Roots Of Modern Democracy written by John Gerring and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with History categories.
Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.
Reformation And Early Modern Europe
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Author : David M. Whitford
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Reformation And Early Modern Europe written by David M. Whitford and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Religion categories.
Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.
Evolutionary Basic Democracy
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Author : J. Gagnon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-23
Evolutionary Basic Democracy written by J. Gagnon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Philosophy categories.
No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that will allow us to understand democracy for the entire planet and all of humanity.
A Cultural History Of Democracy In The Renaissance
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Author : Virginia Cox
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-15
A Cultural History Of Democracy In The Renaissance written by Virginia Cox and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with History categories.
This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a “democratic laboratory” in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement known as humanism, which spread throughout Europe and beyond in this period, had the effect of vastly enhancing knowledge of the classical democratic and republican traditions. Greek history and philosophy, including the story of Athenian democracy, became fully known in the West for the first time in the postclassical world. Partly as a result of this, the period from 1400 to 1650 witnessed rich and historically important debates on some of the enduring political issues at the heart of democratic culture: issues of sovereignty, of liberty, of citizenship, of the common good, of the place of religion in government. At the same time, the introduction of printing, and the emergence of a flourishing, proto-journalistic news culture, laid the basis for something that recognizably anticipates the modern “public sphere.” The expansion of transnational and transcontinental exchange, in what has been called the “age of encounters,” gave a new urgency to discussions of religious and ethnic diversity. Gender, too, was a matter of intense debate in this period, as was, specifically, the question of women's relation to political agency and power. This volume explores these developments in ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty, liberty, and the “common good”; the relation of state and household; religion and political obligation; gender and citizenship; ethnicity, diversity, and nationalism; democratic crises and civil resistance; international relations; and the development of news culture. It makes a pressing case for a fresh understanding of modern democracy's deep roots.
Historical Dictionary Of Democracy
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Author : Norman Abjorensen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-15
Historical Dictionary Of Democracy written by Norman Abjorensen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with Political Science categories.
Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy, for all its imperfections and shortcomings. The question of just why some societies evolved into a democratic trajectory and others did not continues to engage the interest of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Much conjecture surrounds the rise of certain elements we now recognize if not as democratic, then proto-democratic, such as collective decision-making, constraints on the exercise of power and a degree of accountability of the ruler to the ruled. If democracy in the sense of “rule by the people” has two essential qualities – rule by the majority and the equal treatment of free citizens - then its origins, however feeble, are to be found in these early examples of government. Historical Dictionary of Democracy contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about democracy.