Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller - 2011

New Haven, CT, London: Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Near Fine. 6x1x9. [EUROPE]. Muller, Jan-Werner. "Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe." New Haven, CT, London: Yale University Press, 2011. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Text with black and white images. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 3 cm. 24 oz. pp. ix, 281. Smudging on fore-edge of page block. Ink on free front endpaper. Light pencil underlining and marginalia. Very Good Minus in Near Fine jacket. ISBN: 9780300113211."This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes before 1945 and the liberalization of West European politics after the Second World War. He also offers vivid portraits of famous as well as unjustly forgotten political thinkers and the movements and institutions they inspired.