Stephen W. Sawyer’s Demos Assembled: Democracy & the International Origins of the Modern State
La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York CityPrevious studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. Demos Assembled (University of Chicago Press, 2018) provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis, and sheds new…