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Categories: Political Science
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Before New Labour came to power and when even the prospect of reform of Britain's House of Lords was regarded with scepticism, Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty d
The Athenian Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Josiah Ober
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolution
Athenian Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Peter John Rhodes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations
Athens and Athenian Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 483
Authors: Robin Osborne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.
Democracy's Beginning
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Thomas N. Mitchell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-15 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later. The first democracy, establis