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050 00 $aJC421$b.D85 2005
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100 1 $aDunn, John,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83124391
245 10 $aDemocracy :$ba history /$cJohn Dunn.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a246 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-238) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tDemocracy's first coming -- $gCh. 2.$tDemocracy's second coming -- $gCh. 3.$tThe long shadow of Thermidor -- $gCh. 4.$tWhy democracy?
520 1 $a"In Democracy: A History, political theorist John Dunn sets out to explain the extraordinary presence of democracy in today's world. The story begins in Greece, where democracy started as an improvised remedy for a very local difficulty twenty-five hundred years ago. Athens gave democracy a name (demokratia) and worked out an elaborate, highly distinctive, and astonishingly thorough interpretation of the political conditions required to achieve it. However, democracy's tenure was short-lived, flourishing briefly and then fading away almost everywhere for nearly two thousand years. Democracy reappeared with the founding of the new American republic and amid the struggles of the French Revolution. The word democrat suddenly became a partisan label and a badge of political honor, lending credibility to the idea of transforming human collective life, anywhere and everywhere, to fit the requirements of democracy that are so familiar to us today."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDemocracy$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102171
852 00 $bbar$hJC421$i.D85 2005