Democracy's beginning : the Athenian story / Thomas N. Mitchell.

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Mitchell, Thomas N, 1939- [author.]

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TextPublisher number: EB00833435 | Recorded BooksPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300217353
0300217358
0300215037
9780300215038

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democracy's beginningDDC classification:

320.938 23

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JC75.D36 M58 2015eb

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HIS002010 | POL007000 | PHI019000

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Contents:

The Greek Polis: Cradle of democracy -- The rise of democracy -- The democracy's drive for power, glory and gain -- An age of enlightenment -- The democracy falters -- Reconciliation and reform -- Athenian democracy in its fullest form -- Achievements and shortcomings -- Epilogue.

Summary: "The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power. Mitchell's superb history addresses the most crucial issues surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of Athenian democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index.

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"The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power. Mitchell's superb history addresses the most crucial issues surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of Athenian democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

In English.

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