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  • The Threshold of Democracy
    Josiah Ober / Mark C. Carnes / Naomi J. Norman
    The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history. In the wake of Athenian military defeat and rebellion, advocates of democracy have reopened the Assembly, but stability remains elusive. As members of the Assembly, players must contend with divisive issues like citizenship, elections, remilitarization, and d...
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    39,50 €

  • Demopolis
    Josiah Ober
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    35,88 €

  • Democracy and Knowledge
    Josiah Ober
    When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security. Combini...
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    44,20 €

  • Athenian Legacies
    Josiah Ober
    How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few difficulties. But in the face of loss, disruption, and civil war, it requires tragi...
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    47,29 €

  • Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
    Josiah Ober
    How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals tended to assume that ordinary men were incap...
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    85,43 €

  • The Athenian Revolution
    Josiah Ober
    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 t...
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    61,39 €

  • Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
    Josiah Ober
    This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and nonelite citizens. After a preliminary survey of the development of the Athenian ...
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    71,69 €