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A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. [2] Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in society and have their sovereign (e.g., their representatives) held ...
Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia; Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history; Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France; Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian; Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – modern French military history; Julian Jackson (born 1954) – 20th century France; Douglas Johnson (1925–2005) – historian of modern France; Simon Kitson (born c. 1967) – historian of Vichy France; Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023) – history of the French peasantry; Michael Marrus (born 1941 ...
Democracy in modern times has almost always faced opposition from the previously existing government, and many times it has faced opposition from social elites. The implementation of a democratic government from a non-democratic state is typically brought by peaceful or violent democratic revolution .
Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...
Historian Don Doyle has argued that the Union victory in the American Civil War (1861–65) gave a major boost to the course of liberalism. [174] The Union victory energized popular democratic forces. A Confederate victory, on the other hand, would have meant a new birth of slavery, not freedom. Historian Fergus Bordewich, following Doyle ...
The Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century (2003) report by the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association; Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9; Boia, Lucian et al., eds. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (1991)
The history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement. [38] [4] While Macaulay was a popular and celebrated historian of the whig school, his work did not feature in Butterfield's 1931 Whig Interpretation of History. [39]