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020			_a9780195338089
028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors _b: 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. _c:1074137 _d: 31/03/2018
082			_a321.8 KAP
100			_a; Temma Kaplan.
245			_aDemocracy _b: a world history. _c/ Temma Kaplan.
260			_aNew York _b : Oxford University Press _c, 2015.
300			_aviii, 155 pages _b: illustrations _c ; 25 cm.
365			_b1053
505			_aEditor's preface -- Introduction -- Parting the waters and organizing the people -- Prophetic movements and cities of promise -- Democracy against all odds -- Which people shall rule? -- Social revolution and participatory democracy -- Civil disobedience and racial justice -- Optimism and outrage in struggles for democracy -- New world drawing -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further reading -- Websites -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
520			_aOverview: In our time, the term "democracy" is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population. In this book, Temma Kaplan examines attempts from ancient Mesopotamia to the early twenty first century to create democratic governments that allow people to secure food, shelter, land, water, and peace for their mutual benefit. Since early times, proponents of direct or participatory democracy have come into conflict with the leaders of representative institutions that claim singular power over democracy. Patriots of one form or another have tried to reclaim the initiative to determine what democracy should mean and who should manage it. Frequently, people in small communities, trade unions, or repressed racial, religious, and political groups have marched forward using the language of democracy to carve a space for themselves and their ideas at the center of political life. Sometimes they have reinterpreted the old laws, and sometimes they have formulated new laws and institutions in order to gain greater opportunities to debate the major issues of their time. This book examines the development of the democratic ideal from ancient Rome to the Cortes in Spain, the philosophies of Guru Nanak and the Castilian patriot Juan de Padilla, and such inspirational personalities as the Polish trade unionist Anna Walentnyowicz and Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi. Though few democracies have sustained themselves for significant lengths of time, their emergence nearly everywhere on earth over thousands of years indicates their resilience despite the fragility of the democratic ideal.
655			_aPolitics. _bWorld politics. _bDemocracy. _bHistory.
700			_aTemma Kaplan.
942			_cBOOK
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