Re-imagining Democracy

About Us

Re-imagining Democracy is a 4-part collaborative research project exploring how older understandings of democracy were re-imagined and reworked intellectually, practically and institutionally in the movements for and against reform across Europe and the Americas (1750 -1870). The final part on Central and Northern Europe will run from 2022-2026. Continue reading “About Us”

Re-imagining democracy in Central and Northern Europe

31 Oct 20226 Nov 2022

The fourth part of the project is intended to span the Netherlands, Switzerland, the German Confederation/Germany, the Habsburg Empire, the divided lands of Poland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In focussing…

Re-imagining democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

31 Oct 202218 Nov 2022

In 2016 the Re-imagining Democracy Project moved to a new phase as we were completing the book on the Mediterranean. The new phase moved our attention to the experience of…

Re-imagining Democracy in The Age of Revolutions

31 Oct 202231 Oct 2022

Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain and Ireland (2013) The first phase of the Re-imagining Democracy project began with a series of exploratory meetings, the first…

Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean

31 Oct 202231 Oct 2022

Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean 1750-1860 Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean was an international research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and directed by Joanna Innes (Oxford) with Mark Philp (Warwick), Maurizio…