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Democracy : a Life.
In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic thought. In Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge provides a detailed history of this ancient political system.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Democracy; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Prologue Lost in Translation? Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy I; ACT I; Chapter 1 Sources, Ancient and Modern; Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Polis, Politics, and the Political: Modern and Contemporary Appropriations of Democracy II; ACT II; Chapter 3 The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece; Chapter 4 The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0
- Chapter 6 Greek Democratic Theory?Chapter 7 Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335; Chapter 8 Athenian Democracy: Culture and Society c. 450-335; Chapter 9 Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: The Fifth Century; Chapter 10 Athenian Democracy in Court: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon; ACT III; Chapter 11 Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics; Chapter 12 Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus'; Chapter 13 The Strange Death of Classical Greek Democracy: A Retrospect; ACT IV
- Chapter 14 Hellenistic Democracy? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 bceChapter 15 Roman Republic: A Sort of Democracy? ; Chapter 16 Democracy Denied: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires; Chapter 17 Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance; ACT V; Chapter 18 Democracy Revived: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter 19 Democracy Reinvented: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America
- Chapter 20 Democracy Tamed: Nineteenth-Century Great BritainEpilogue Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects; Notes and References; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index