Anglo-American Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
004445130X
ISBN-13
9780044451303
SKU
9780044451303
Description
This is an account of the idea of democracy, centred upon major events and key thinkers of the 19th century, including Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and William Morris.
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