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Aftershocks : Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century /

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks is the first book to offer a detailed explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat--not only of democracy but also o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gunitsky, Seva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a century of shocks and waves
  • From crests to collapses: the sources of failure in democratic waves
  • The alchemy of war
  • A low dishonest decade
  • Two ways of life
  • The winds from the east
  • Conclusion : beyond the great plateau.