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The secret history of democracy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Democracy and History
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    Chapter 2 What is so ‘Primitive’ about ‘Primitive Democracy’? Comparing the Ancient Middle East and Classical Athens
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    Chapter 3 Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenicia and Greek City-States
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    Chapter 4 Republics and Quasi-Democratic Institutions in Ancient India
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    Chapter 5 Digging for Democracy in China
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    Chapter 6 Behind a Veil: Islam’s Democratic History
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    Chapter 7 Ideals and Aspirations: Democracy and Law-Making in Medieval Iceland
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    Chapter 8 Democratic Culture in the Early Venetian Republic
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    Chapter 9 Africa’s Indigenous Democracies: The Baganda of Uganda
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    Chapter 10 The Hunters Who Owned Themselves
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    Chapter 11 Aboriginal Australia and Democracy: Old Traditions, New Challenges
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    Chapter 12 The Pre-History of the Post-Apartheid Settlement: Non-Racial Democracy in South Africa’s Cape Colony, 1853–1936
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    Chapter 13 Birthing Democracy: The Role of Women in the Democratic Discourse of the Middle East
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    Chapter 14 The Streets of Iraq: Protests and Democracy after Saddam
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    Chapter 15 Monitory Democracy? The Secret History of Democracy since 1945
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    Chapter 16 Conclusion: Democratizing the History of Democracy
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Chapter title
What is so ‘Primitive’ about ‘Primitive Democracy’? Comparing the Ancient Middle East and Classical Athens
Chapter number 2
Book title
The Secret History of Democracy
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2011
DOI 10.1057/9780230299467_2
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-31887-2, 978-0-230-29946-7
Authors

Benjamin Isakhan

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Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 67%
Student > Bachelor 1 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 3 100%

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