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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781416526063 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
JC421 |
| Item number |
.K37 2010 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
321.8 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) |
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
JC 421 .K37 2010 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Keane, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1949- |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The life and death of democracy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
John Keane. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxxiii, 958 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [888]-929) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Assembly democracy. Athens ; West by east -- Representative democracy. On representative government ; The American century ; Caudillo democracy ; The European graveyard -- Monitory democracy. Under the Banyan tree ; Sea changes ; Memories from the future ; Why democracy ; New democratic rules. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? [...] Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy [...] It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy." -- Book jacket. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Democracy |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
World politics. |