Setting the people free : the story of democracy / John Dunn.
Setting the people free : the story of democracy / John Dunn.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/0006
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxv, 225 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Democracy's first coming -- Democracy's second coming -- The long shadow of Thermidor -- Why democracy?
Publication information
Publisher
Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Edition
Second edition.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
2019.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of t...
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Setting the people free : the story of democracy / John Dunn.
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Notes
General note
First published in 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-220) and index.
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G 2019/0006
Record Identifier
74VKVjOLaNbM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVjOLaNbM
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ISBN
0691180032 (paperback)
9780691180038 (paperback)
DDC
321.8
MMS ID
991024210055902626
