Aftershocks : : Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century / / Seva Gunitsky.
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 offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat-not only of democracy but also of its twen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 23 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: A Century of Shocks and Waves
- 2. From Crests to Collapses: The Sources of Failure in Democratic Waves
- 3. The Alchemy of War
- 4. A Low Dishonest Decade
- 5. Two Ways of Life
- 6. The Winds from the East
- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Great Plateau
- Appendix 1: Regime Classifications, 1900-2000
- Appendix 2: Regime Impositions
- Bibliography
- Index