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Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840 1880
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 our democratic institutions are rife with conflict, its more important now than ever to understand how our institutions came into being. Stephen W. Sawyers Read more