AND THE PEOPLE ; PART ONE: MAKING DEMOCRACY SOCIAL: PREPARING THE FUTURE ; CLASS ; HISTORY ; PART TWO: REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, 1914-1923 ; THE LEFT, 1914-17 ; 1917-23 ; PART THREE: STABILISATION AND THE "WAR OF POSITION" ; DEMOCRACY ; COUNTRY ; RETREAT ; NATION, 1939-47 ; THE COLD WAR, 1945-56 ; PART FOUR: FUTURE IMPERFECT ; DEMOCRACY ; 1989
Tour de force of synthesis and scholarship by major European historian
Geoff Eley is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author and editor of many books on British and German history, including Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck.
"A tour de force written with panache and commitment will keep the
reader spellbound throughout its almost 700 pages. it is surely a
sign of a truly great book that its readers will want to take issue
with it, argue with it and engage with it in manifold ways."--
Journal of Cold War Studies
"Overall, Eley has written a remarkable book that recounts a
sweeping history."--Journal of Modern History
"There is nothing, to my knowledge, in the scholarly literature on
the history of the Left to compare with it in comprehensiveness,
forceful interpretation, and historiographical mastery. It is a
noble achievement."--Central European History
Geoff Eley is to be commended for bringing together in one volume a
wealth of information on the history of Europe's "Left."--Science &
Society
"A magisterial overview...sweeping no just in its chronological but
also its geographic scope. Forging Democracy will certainly rank
with Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes as one of the lasting political
histories of the (very) long twentieth century."--Contemporary
Sociology
"Displays formidable erudition. A college library
must."--CHOICE
"[A]dmirable tome....scholars and graduate students will find
Eley's work a welcome addition to their reference shelf of standard
works on European history....A genuinely pan-European dimension
befitting both the nature of the subject and the times in which it
was written....Ely's book is essential reading."--American
Historical Review
"Overall, Eley has written a remarkable book that recounts a
sweeping history."--Journal of Modern History
"A tour de force written with panache and commitment will keep the
reader spellbound throughout its almost 700 pages. it is surely a
sign of a truly great book that its readers will want to take issue
with it, argue with it and engage with it in manifold ways."--
Journal of Cold War Studies
"Geoff Eley is to commended for bringing together in one volume a
wealth of information on the history of Europe's "Left."--Science &
Society
"A magisterial overview...sweeping no just in its chronological but
also its geographic scope. Forging Democracy will certainly rank
with Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes as one of the lasting political
histories of the (very) long twentieth century."--Contemporary
Sociology
"A work 'written from great passion and great regret.' It is also
an amazing synthesis of the historical literature . This book
should inspire scholars as well as furnish an excellent resource
for students in modern European history." - The Historian
"There is nothing, to my knowledge, in the scholarly literature on
the history of the Left to compare with it in comprehensiveness,
forceful interpretation, and historiographical mastery. It is a
noble achievement."--Central European History
"Displays formidable erudition. A college library
must."--CHOICE
"[A]dmirable tome....scholars and graduate students will find
Eley's work a welcome addition to their reference shelf of standard
works on European history....A genuinely pan-European dimension
befitting both the nature of the subject and the times in which it
was written....Ely's book is essential reading."--American
Historical Review
"Combining the learning and analysis of the historian with the
commitment of the student radical of 1968,Geoff Eley has written a
manifesto of hope in democracy, and a long, regretful good-bye to
the movements of the Left which, for 150 years, gave it its
reality. Those who want to understand the history of Europe since
1848 will do well to read this wide-ranging and multinational
survey, written with both thoght and feeling."-- Eric Hobsbawm FBA,
Amer.Academy
of Arts & Sciences, Emeritus Professor
"Ranging over a century and a half and the entire continent of
Europe, and with a cast of characters including unionists,
feminists, radical intellectuals, political radicals, and many
others, this remarkable book offers a much-needed account of the
history of European radicalism. And it provides essential
historical background for the rethinking of purposes and
intellectual premises in which the European--and American--Left is
now engaged."- Eric Foner
"A remarkable feat--a clear, balanced history of left politics
which includes social and cultural movements from women's
liberation to proletarian nudism, from Bolshevik street theater to
New Age travellers. Geoff Eley covers the well-known international
events along with the suppressed and marginalized. His long view
defies forgetfulness and suggest that what will be found relevant
in the future is always unexpected."-- Sheila Rowbotham
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