{"product_id":"western-europes-democratic-age-1945-1968-paperback","title":"Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Conway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In \u003ci\u003eWestern Europe's Democratic Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe--and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces--primarily Christian and social democratic--that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWestern Europe's Democratic Age \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Conway\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College. He is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Belgium: Liberation and Political Reconstruction, 1944-1947\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47410308743346,"sku":"9780691204598","price":35.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/67423a822141292efd9afd22d709bba2.webp?v=1778281698","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/western-europes-democratic-age-1945-1968-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}