Demos Rising

A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled , historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising , he presents readers of political history with a prequel whose ambitious claim is that a genuine demos became possible in France only with the development of government regulation and administration. Focusing