Languages of democracy in America from the Revolution to the election of 1800 / Seth Cotlar -- The 'fortunate banner' : languages of democracy in the United States, c. 1848 / Adam I. P. Smith -- The contradictions of democracy in American institutions and practices / Laura F. Edwards -- Varieties of democracy in the French Revolution / Ruth Scurr -- Democracy, self, and the problem of the general will in nineteenth-century French political thought / Michael Drolet -- Elections and democracy in France, 1789-1848 / Malcolm Crook -- Talking about democracy : Britain in the 1790s / Mark Philp -- The rise of democratic discourse in the Reform era : Britain in the 1830s and 1840s / Joanna Innes, Mark Philp, Robert Saunders -- People and power in British politics to 1850 / Joanna Innes -- Constructing democratic thought in Ireland in the age of revolution, 1775-1800 / Ultán Gillen -- 'Democracy' and the Irish people, 1830-48 / Laurent Colantonio -- The limits of democracy : Ireland 1778-1848 / Sean Connolly -- Synergies / Joanna Innes, Mark Philp.