Learned excursions and scientific tourism at the first International Conferences of West Africanists (1945-1949) – The Scientific Conference: a Social, Cultural, and Political History

Irrelevant Scapegoat: The Perils of Doing European History in Post-Trump America | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Irrelevant Scapegoat: The Perils of Doing European History in Post-Trump America - Volume 32 Issue 1

The Certainties of the Past?

Democracy has a long history; or, perhaps more exactly, it has a long past. The electoral and political volatility which has been evident in Europe during the first two decades of the twenty-first century has created a widespread sense that a past era of democratic certainties has ended. That generates civic and intellectual challenges for our present era. But it also enables us to reassess the supposed certainties of past history. How far can we still regard the history of Western Europe in the second half of the century as a democratic era? Or should we now see it as a similar era of political uncertainties?