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Cultural Histories of Democracy: Studies in Political Culture Since the 19th Century - Germany and Beyond

Cultural Histories of Democracy: Studies in Political Culture Since the 19th Century - Germany and Beyond

Mergel, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Approaches to History

19th Century United States HistoryFrench HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 1032411325
ISBN13: 9781032411323
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Over the last two decades German political history has changed fundamentally. It has reinvented itself as cultural history and sought to apply symbolic, linguistic, and praxeological approaches.

This book brings for the first time in English, Thomas Mergel's inquiries into the history of democracy in Germany, with comparative perspective across the 19th and 20th centuries, while offering frequent sideways glances at its Western European and American neighbors. Politics is highlighted as a social and symbolic practice; the body, language, symbolism, and routine action are examined as factors that let politics emerge as a process of communication.

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