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[Glasgow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]

Princeton:: Princeton University Press,. Near Fine. Date: 1999. Paperback. 0691001901 . Second paperback printing. Previous owner's name and date on half-title page, else near fine in pictorial wraps. . 1999. Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691001901 9780691001906 [US]

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Paperback / softback. New. Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? The author shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 BC. He also examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for dissident Athenian intellectuals. ISBN 0691001901 9780691001906 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691001901, ISBN13: 9780691001906, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? The author shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 BC. He also examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for dissident Athenian intellectuals.
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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 212 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 1999. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691001901 9780691001906 [GB]

Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 212 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 1999. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691001901 9780691001906 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691001901, ISBN13: 9780691001906, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Where did 'democracy' come from, and what was its original form and meaning Here Josiah Ober shows that this 'power of the people' crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history.When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that ...
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