Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism
Part I. Bonapartism to Its Contemporaries: 1. From consulate to empire: impetus and resistance Isser Woloch 2. The Bonapartes and Germany T. C. W. Blanning 3. Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism David E. Barclay 4. Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires Melvin Richter 5. Marx and Brumaire Terrell Carver 6. Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy: the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire Sudhir Hazareesingh Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism: Twentieth-Century Experiences and Reflections: 7. Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism Peter Baehr 8. The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci Benedetto Fontana 9. From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy: Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism and emergency powers John P. McCormick 10. Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership: comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people Jack Hayward 11. The leader and the masses: Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship Margaret Canovan Part III. Ancient Resonances: 12. Dictatorship in Rome Claude Nicolet 13. From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism: the imperial administrator as internal threat Arthur M. Eckstein.