The Decline and Rise of Democracy : : A Global History from Antiquity to Today / / David Stasavage.
A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical 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 sho...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 32 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part I. Early Democracy
- 1. Origins of Democratic Rule
- 2. Early Democracy Was Widespread
- 3. Weak States Inherited Democracy
- 4. When Technology Undermined Democracy
- Part II. The Divergence
- 5. The Development of Representation in Europe
- 6. China as the Bureaucratic Alternative
- 7. How Democracy Disappeared in the Islamic World
- 8. Democracy and Economic Development over the Long Run
- Part III. Modern Democracy
- 9. Why England Was Different
- 10. Democracy—and Slavery—in America
- 11. The Spread of Modern Democracy
- 12. The Ongoing Democratic Experiment
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE