The decline and rise of democracy : a global history from antiquity to today /
"Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer-democratic practices were present in many places, at many other times, from the Americas b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins of democratic rule
- Early democracy was widespread
- Weak states inherited democracy
- When technology undermined democracy
- The development of representation in Europe
- China as the bureaucratic alternative
- How democracy disappeared in the Islamic world
- Democracy and economic development over the long run
- Why England was different
- Democracy-and slavery-in America
- The spread of modern democracy
- The ongoing democratic experiment.