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DEMOCRACY : a life.

The 2,500 year story of democracy: how it has survived, how it has been practised, and how it has been imagined, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: CARTLEDGE, PAUL
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: OXFORD : OXFORD University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER; DEMOCRACY: A Life; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TIMELINE; Archaic Age; Classical Age; Hellenistic Age; Hellenistic Age; Late Roman Republic; Early Roman Empire; Later Roman Empire/ Early Byzantine Age; Some post- antique landmarks; DEMOCRACY; PROLOGUE: Lost in Translation? Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy I; I; 1. SOURCES, ANCIENT AND MODERN; 2. THE EMERGENCE OF THE POLIS, POLITICS, AND THE POLITICAL: Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy II; II.
  • 3. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY I: Archaic Greece4. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY II: Athens 508/ 7; 5. THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK DEMOCRACY III: Athens 507â#x80;#x93; 451/ 0; 6. GREEK DEMOCRATIC THEORY?; 7. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE C. 450â#x80;#x93;335; 8. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY: CULTURE AND SOCIETY C. 450â#x80;#x93;335; 9. GREEK DEMOCRACY IN CREDIT AND CRISIS I: The Fifth Century; 10. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN COURT: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon; III; 11. GREEK DEMOCRACY IN CREDIT AND CRISIS II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375â#x80;#x93;350) and Its Critics.
  • 12. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AT WORK IN THE â#x80;#x98;AGE OF LYCURGUSâ#x80;#x99;13. THE STRANGE DEATH OF CLASSICAL GREEK DEMOCRACY: A Retrospect; IV; 14. HELLENISTIC DEMOCRACY?: Democracy in Deficit c. 323â#x80;#x93;86 BCE; 15. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: A Sort of Democracy?; Polybiusâ#x80;#x99; Roman Constitution; The Millar Thesis; 16. DEMOCRACY DENIED: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires; 17. DEMOCRACY ECLIPSED: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance; Post- Antique Mediaeval West; The Renaissance; V.
  • 18. DEMOCRACY REVIVED: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesEngland in the Seventeenth Century; France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 19. DEMOCRACY REINVENTED: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocquevilleâ#x80;#x99;s America; The United States; Tocquevilleâ#x80;#x99;s America; 20. DEMOCRACY TAMED: Nineteenth- Century Great Britain; EPILOGUE: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects; Optimism; Conclusion; NOTES AND REFERENCES; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1: ANCIENT SOURCES AND SOURCEBOOKS.