Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Democracy 1
Part I Roots and Branches 19
Chapter 1 Born in Bloodshed: The Origins of Democracy 21
Chapter 2 Voices in the Wilderness: Democracies in North America 61
Chapter 3 Democracy Deferred: The English Civil War 94
Chapter 4 Coup d'Etat: 1688 in England and America 137
Part II Trial and Error 189
Chapter 5 Sympathy, Will, and Democracy in the Enlightenments of Europe 191
Chapter 6 Faith, Enlightenment, and Resistance in America 252
Chapter 7 Democracy and American Independence 314
Chapter 8 Constituting American Democracy 364
Chapter 9 Ratification and Reciprocity 409
Part III Failure in Success 455
Chapter 10 Delusions of Unity and Collisions with Tradition in the French Revolution 457
Chapter 11 Virtue and Violence in the French Revolution 505
Chapter 12 Democracy in the Wake of Terror 547
Chapter 13 Diagnosing Democratic Cultures in America and Europe 589
Chapter 14 The Tragic Irony of Democracy 655
Notes 711
Index 829