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Chapter 1 Prehistory

From the book The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

  • Christopher Boehm
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748653669-004
© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy
The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

Chapters in this book (51)

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Complex and Contested History of Democracy
Part I Pre-Classical Democracy
Chapter 1 Prehistory
Chapter 2 The Assyrians
Chapter 3 Ancient India
Chapter 4 Ancient China
Chapter 5 Israel and Phoenicia
Part II Classical Democracy
Chapter 6 Early Greece
Chapter 7 Athens
Chapter 8 Rome
Part III Medieval Democracy
Chapter 9 Islam
Chapter 10 Venice
Chapter 11 The Nordic Countries
Chapter 12 The Christian Church
Part IV Early Modern Democracy
Chapter 13 The English Parliament
Chapter 14 The Levellers and Diggers
Chapter 15 The Swiss Cantons
Chapter 16 The American Revolution
Chapter 17 The French Revolution
Part V Colonialism and Democracy
Chapter 18 Africa
Chapter 19 Native Americans
Chapter 20 Australasia
Chapter 21 Singapore
Part VI National Movements
Chapter 22 1808: South American Liberation
Chapter 23 1848: European Revolutions
Chapter 24 1919: After Versailles
Chapter 25 1945: Post-Second World War Japan
Chapter 26 1989: Eastern Europe
Part VII Peoples’ Movements
Chapter 27 Anti-Slavery
Chapter 28 Women’s Suffrage
Chapter 29 Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
Chapter 30 Civil Rights
Part VIII Democracy Today
Chapter 31 South Africa
Chapter 32 Bolivia
Chapter 33 Georgia
Chapter 34 Iraq
Chapter 35 Burma
Chapter 36 China since Tiananmen Square
Chapter 37 Islam since 9/11
Part IX Futures and Possibilities
Chapter 38 Democracy Promotion
Chapter 39 Transnational Democracy
Chapter 40 Digital Democracy
Chapter 41 Radical Democracy
Chapter 42 Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 43 New Thinking
Conclusion: The Future History of Democracy
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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