Dictatorship in History and Theory
Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism

Table of Contents

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.