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Democracy : A World History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Oxford World History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199713745
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DemocracyDDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC423 -- .K375 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Democracy: A World History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Parting the Waters and Organizing the People -- Chapter 2 Prophetic Movements and Cities of Promise -- Chapter 3 Democracy against All Odds -- Chapter 4 Which People Shall Rule? -- Chapter 5 Social Revolution and Participatory Democracy -- Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and Racial Justice -- Chapter 7 Optimism and Outrage in Struggles for Democracy -- Chapter 8 New World Dawning -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy: A World History examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace.
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Intro -- Democracy: A World History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Parting the Waters and Organizing the People -- Chapter 2 Prophetic Movements and Cities of Promise -- Chapter 3 Democracy against All Odds -- Chapter 4 Which People Shall Rule? -- Chapter 5 Social Revolution and Participatory Democracy -- Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and Racial Justice -- Chapter 7 Optimism and Outrage in Struggles for Democracy -- Chapter 8 New World Dawning -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy: A World History examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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