WOOLF, Leonard.

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After the Deluge: A Study of Communal Psychology. First edition, first impression, of Woolf's psychological study of the growth of democracy in the 18th and 19th centuries, seldom seen with the dust jackets."Woolf's main theme is the contrast between the structure of society and the 'communal psychology' of Europe before and after the Revolution of 1789. His argument was that before this crucial date, political power was a form of personal property... Woolf's conclusion was that by 1832 the idea of political equality had been temporarily and de facto rejected" (Wilson, p. 218-9).

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