Dictatorship in history and theory : Bonapartism, Caesarism, and totalitarianism / edited by Peter Baehr, Melvin Richter.

Most chapters of this book represent amended versions of papers delivered at the international meeting of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought at Hunter College, N.Y., in April 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter -- Part I. Bonapartism to its contemporaries -- From Consulate to Empire : impetus and resistance / Isser Woloch -- The Bonapartes and Germany / T.C.W. Blanning -- Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism / David E. Barclay -- Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires / Melvin Richter -- Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : democracy, dictatorship, and the politics of class struggle / Terrell Carver -- 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 -- Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism / Peter Baehr -- The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci / Benedetto Fontana -- From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy : Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers / John P. McCormick -- Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership : comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people / Jack Hayward -- The leader and the masses : Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship / Margaret Canovan -- Part III. Ancient resonances -- Dictatorship in Rome / Claude Nicolet -- From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism : the Imperial Administrator as internal threat / Arthur M. Eckstein.