Dictatorship in history and theory Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism

Bringing together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationships among nineteenth century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, this study pays special attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck. An important contribution is considera...

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Autor Corporativo: Conference for the Study of Political Thought (-)
Otros Autores: Baehr, Peter (-), Richter, Melvin, 1921-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, UK ; New York : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press 2004.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter
  • Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries
  • From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch
  • The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning
  • Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay
  • Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter
  • Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver
  • Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy : the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire / Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, totalitarianism : twentieth-century experiences and reflections
  • Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr
  • The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana
  • From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick
  • Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward
  • The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan
  • Part III. Ancient resonances
  • Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet
  • From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein.