Paul Cartledge

Democracy

A Life

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Produktbeschreibung

The 2,500 year story of democracy: how it has survived, how it has been practised, and how it has been imagined, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 134mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780198815136
• ISBN-10: 0198815131
• Artikelnr.: 50692302

Autorenporträt

Paul Cartledge was the inaugural A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University of Cambridge, and President of Clare College, Cambridge. Between 2006 and 2010 he was Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy at New York University. Over the course of his distinguished career he has written and edited numerous books on the ancient Greek world, including The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (2002), Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (2011), and After Themopylae (2013), all also published by Oxford University Press. He has also served as historical consultant for the BBC television series The Greeks, and for four Channel 4 documentaries, including The Spartans.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
* Timeline
* Prologue: Lost in Translation?
* ACT I
* 1: Sources, Ancient and Modern
* 2: The Emergence of the Polis, Politics, and the Political
* ACT II
* 3: The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece
* 4: The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7
* 5: The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0
* 6: Greek Democratic Theory?
* 7: Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335
* 8: Athenian Democracy: Culture and Society c. 450-335
* 9: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: The Fifth Century
* 10: Athenian Democracy in Court: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and
Ctesiphon
* ACT III
* 11: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek
Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics
* 12: Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus'
* 13: The Strange Death of Classical Greek Democracy: A Retrospect
* ACT IV
* 14: Hellenistic Democracy? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE
* 15: The Roman Republic: A sort of Democracy?
* 16: Democracy Denied: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires
* 17: Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and
the Renaissance
* ACT V
* 18: Democracy Revived: England in the Seventeenth Century and France
in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
* 19: Democracy Reinvented: The United States in the Late Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America
* 20: Democracy Tamed: Nineteenth-Century Great Britain
* Epilogue: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects
* Afterword
* Notes and References
* Bibliography and Further Reading
* Index