Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy
自治：美国民主的文化史
书名解读
Cultural history 文化史
cultural
culture
democracy 民主
关键词
new national class 新的国家阶级
lodge democracy 寄宿民主
white wage earners 白人雇佣劳动者
guerrilla politics 游击政治
original democracy 原始民主
local middle class 地方中产阶级
century democracy 世纪民主
new individualism 新个人主义
white fraternity 白人团结
democratic individualism 民主个人主义
内容概要
Something profoundly important
occurred in early 19th century America
that came to be called democracy.
Since then hundreds of millions of people worldwide
have operated on the assumption that democracy exists.
Yet definitions of democracy are surprisingly vague
and remarkably few reckon with its history.
In Self-Rule, Robert Wiebe suggests
that only in appreciating that history can we recognize
how breathtaking democracy's arrival was,
how extraordinary its spread has been,
and how uncertain its prospects are.
讲解
逐句对照
Something profoundly important
occurred in early 19th century America
that came to be called democracy.
Since then hundreds of millions of people worldwide
have operated on the assumption that democracy exists.
Yet definitions of democracy are surprisingly vague
and remarkably few reckon with its history.
In Self-Rule, Robert Wiebe suggests
that only in appreciating that history can we recognize
how breathtaking democracy's arrival was,
how extraordinary its spread has been,
and how uncertain its prospects are.
多学一点
self-rule 自治
self-
oneself 自我，自身
self-respect 自尊
self-control 自控
selfanalysis 自我分析
on the assumption that 假定，假设
We are working on the assumption
that the rate of unemployment will not increase next year.
assumption 假定，假设
only
can
Only in this way, can you learn English well.
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American democracy arrived abruptly in the 19th century;
it changed just as dramatically early in the 20th.
Hence, Self-Rule divides the history of American democracy
into two halves:
a 19th century half covering the 1820s to the present,
and a 20th century half,
with a major transition
from the 1890s to the 1920s between them.
As Wiebe explains why the original democracy
of the early 19th century represented a sharp break
from the past,
he recreates in vivid detail the way European visitors
contrasted the radical character of American democracy
with their own societies.
讲解
逐句对照
American democracy arrived abruptly in the 19th century;
it changed just as dramatically early in the 20th.
Hence, Self-Rule divides the history of American democracy
into two halves:
a 19th century half covering the 1820s to the present,
and a 20th century half,
with a major transition
from the 1890s to the 1920s between them.
As Wiebe explains why the original democracy
of the early 19th century represented a sharp break
from the past,
he recreates in vivid detail the way European visitors
contrasted the radical character of American democracy
with their own societies.
多学一点
contrast with 和…比较，对照
Contrast English with Chinese.
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He then discusses the operation
of various 19th century democratic publics,
including a nationwide public, the People.
Finally, he places democracy's
white fraternal world of equals
in a larger environment
where other Americans who differed by class, race,
and gender, developed their own relations to democracy.
Wiebe then picks up the history of democracy in the 1920s
and carries it to the present.
讲解
逐句对照
He then discusses the operation
of various 19th century democratic publics,
including a nationwide public, the People.
Finally, he places democracy's
white fraternal world of equals
in a larger environment
where other Americans who differed by class, race,
and gender, developed their own relations to democracy.
Wiebe then picks up the history of democracy in the 1920s
and carries it to the present.
原音重现
Something profoundly important
occurred in early 19th century America
that came to be called democracy.
Since then hundreds of millions of people worldwide
have operated on the assumption that democracy exists.
Yet definitions of democracy are surprisingly vague
and remarkably few reckon with its history.
In Self-Rule, Robert Wiebe suggests
that only in appreciating that history can we recognize
how breathtaking democracy's arrival was,
how extraordinary its spread has been,
and how uncertain its prospects are.
American democracy arrived abruptly in the 19th century;
it changed just as dramatically early in the 20th.
Hence, Self-Rule divides the history of American democracy
into two halves:
a 19th century half covering the 1820s to the present,
and a 20th century half,
with a major transition
from the 1890s to the 1920s between them.
As Wiebe explains why the original democracy
of the early 19th century represented a sharp break
from the past,
he recreates in vivid detail the way European visitors
contrasted the radical character of American democracy
with their own societies.
He then discusses the operation
of various 19th century democratic publics,
including a nationwide public, the People.
Finally, he places democracy's
white fraternal world of equals
in a larger environment
where other Americans who differed by class, race,
and gender, developed their own relations to democracy.
Wiebe then picks up the history of democracy in the 1920s
and carries it to the present.