Democracy's beginning : the Athenian story /

Democracy's beginning : the Athenian story /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mitchell, Thomas N., 1939- author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. Democracy. Politics and government. Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C. Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government. Greece. Greece -- Athens. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755143

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9780300217353 0300217358 0300215037 9780300215038 9780300215038
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index. In English. Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EbscoHost platform, viewed November 19, 2015).
Summary:	"The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power. Mitchell's superb history addresses the most crucial issues surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of Athenian democracy"--
Other form:	Print version: Mitchell, Thomas N., 1939- Democracy's beginning 9780300215038
Standard no.:	9780300215038 10.12987/9780300217353
Publisher's no.:	EB00833435 Recorded Books

Table of Contents:

The Greek Polis: Cradle of democracy
The rise of democracy
The democracy's drive for power, glory and gain
An age of enlightenment
The democracy falters
Reconciliation and reform
Athenian democracy in its fullest form
Achievements and shortcomings
Epilogue.