Book Celebration of Demos Assembled, by Professor Stephen Sawyer

Our very own Professor Stephen Sawyer has a book, Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, coming out this month. Come celebrate with the History faculty and hear him speak about his book. 

Book Blurb

Previous 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. And in an era where our democratic institutions are rife with conflict, it’s more important now than ever to understand how our institutions came into being. Stephen W. Sawyer’s Demos Assembled provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis.