Isakhan, Benjamin
The Secret History of Democracy
1. Introduction: Democracy and History
Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell
Part I. Pre-Athenian Democracy
2. What is so ‘Primitive’ about ‘Primitive Democracy’? Comparing the Ancient Middle East and Classical Athens
Benjamin Isakhan
3. Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenicia and Greek City-States
Stephen Stockwell
4. Republics and Quasi-Democratic Institutions in Ancient India
Steven Muhlberger
5. Digging for Democracy in China
Pauline Keating
Part II. Democracy in the ‘Dark Ages’
6. Behind a Veil: Islam’s Democratic History
Mohamad Abdalla, Halim Rane
7. Ideals and Aspirations: Democracy and Law-Making in Medieval Iceland
Patricia Pires Boulhosa
8. Democratic Culture in the Early Venetian Republic
Stephen Stockwell
Part III. Indigenous Democracy and Colonialism
9. Africa’s Indigenous Democracies: The Baganda of Uganda
Immaculate Kizza
10. The Hunters Who Owned Themselves
Philippe Paine
11. Aboriginal Australia and Democracy: Old Traditions, New Challenges
Larissa Behrendt
12. The Pre-History of the Post-Apartheid Settlement: Non-Racial Democracy in South Africa’s Cape Colony, 1853–1936
Poppy Fry
Part IV. Alternative Currents in Modern Democracy
13. Birthing Democracy: The Role of Women in the Democratic Discourse of the Middle East
K. Luisa Gandolfo
14. The Streets of Iraq: Protests and Democracy after Saddam
Benjamin Isakhan
15. Monitory Democracy? The Secret History of Democracy since 1945
John Keane
16. Conclusion: Democratizing the History of Democracy
Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell
Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics, Social Philosophy, Political History, Political Science
- Toimittaja
- Isakhan, Benjamin
- Stockwell, Stephen
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2011
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 263 sivua
- Kategoria
- Yhteiskunta
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230299467
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-31887-2