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Forging Democracy : The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 by Geoff Eley; Geoff Hey is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. <p>Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement o

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Geoff Eley; Geoff Hey
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780198021407
Category
history
Subjects
History, Social Science, World
Updated
2026-03-24

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