TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Temma TI - Democracy: A World History T2 - New Oxford World History Series SN - 9780199713745 AV - JC423 -- .K375 2015eb U1 - 321.8 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Democracy KW - Government accountability KW - State, The KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1819544 ER -