Tragic Irony: The Rise of Democracy in European and American Thought
Event Details
Date
Monday, April 7, 2014
Time
5:30 p.m.
Location
325 Pyle Center
Description
James T. Kloppenberg places early experiments in self-government in England’s North American colonies in the context of the sixteenth-century European wars of religion and the English Civil War, then locates the American Revolution, the US Constitution, and the nineteenth-century expansion of democracy in America in relation to the French Revolution and its aftermath.
Cost
Free
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