Setting the People Free : : The Story of Democracy, Second Edition / / John Dunn.
Why does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near ext...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements for the Original Edition
- Preface: Why Democracy?
- 1. Democracy’s First Coming
- 2. Democracy’s Second Coming
- 3. The Long Shadow of Thermidor
- 4. Why Democracy?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index