Forged through fire : war, peace, and the democratic bargain / John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rose...
Forged through fire : war, peace, and the democratic bargain / John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth.
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
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G 2017/2718
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English
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xi, 460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The twenty-first-century wars without citizen armies -- Part I: From antiquity to medieval times -- War and democracy in classical Athens -- The glory that was Rome -- A millennium of landed aristocracy -- Part II: Monarchy and other experiments -- The emergence of monarchy in France and Spain -- Wa...
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"Is democracy dependent on war to survive? Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. Considering the question of whether democracy is dependent on war, two celebrated political scientists trace the ways in which governments have mobilised armies since antiquity. They find that our modern form of democracy...
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Forged through fire : war, peace, and the democratic bargain / John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth.
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War, peace, and the democratic bargain
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/2718
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74VKVaQO76Mg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQO76Mg
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ISBN
9781631491603
DDC
321.8
MMS ID
991024104317902626