From Democrats To Kings
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From Democrats To Kings
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Author : Michael Scott
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-06-03
From Democrats To Kings written by Michael Scott and has been published by Icon Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-03 with History categories.
Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighbouring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, less than 100 years later, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absolute monarch, a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come: 'megas alexandros', Alexander the Great. Michael Scott, Finley Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College, Cambridge, explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world was turned on its head from Democratic Athens to King Alexander the Great in this superb example of popular history writing. "From Democrats to Kings" also gives us a fresh take on the similar challenges we face today in the 21st century - a world in which many democracies - old and new - fight for survival, in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable and in which the severity of the economic crisis is only matched by a crisis in our own sense of self.
From Democrats To Kings
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Author : Michael Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
From Democrats To Kings written by Michael Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Greece categories.
Democrats Oligarchs And Kings
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Author : Linda Holman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Democrats Oligarchs And Kings written by Linda Holman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History, Ancient categories.
Democrats, oligarchs and kings: studies in five ancient societies, volume 2.
The End Of Kings
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Author : William R. Everdell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000-04-15
The End Of Kings written by William R. Everdell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-15 with History categories.
Written in clear, lively prose, The End of Kings traces the history of republican governments and the key figures that are united by the simple republican maxim: No man shall rule alone. Breathtaking in its scope, Everdell's book moves from the Hebrew Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus's Rome to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and the Watergate proceedings during which Nixon resigned. Along the way, he carefully builds a definition of "republic" which distinguishes democratic republics from aristocratic ones for both history and political science. In a new foreword, Everdell addresses the impeachment trial of President Clinton and argues that impeachment was never meant to punish private crimes. Ultimately, Everdell's brilliant analysis helps us understand how examining the past can shed light on the present. "[An] energetic, aphoristic, wide-ranging book."—Marcus Cunliffe, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious in conception and presented in a clear and sprightly prose. . . . [This] excellent study . . . is the best statement of the republican faith since Alphonse Aulard's essays almost a century ago." —Choice "A book which ought to be in the hand of every American who agrees with Benjamin Franklin that the Founding Fathers gave us a Republic and hoped that we would be able to keep it."-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Delphi And Olympia
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Author : Michael Scott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-22
Delphi And Olympia written by Michael Scott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with History categories.
This book investigates and re-evaluates the remains of the two most important sanctuaries in ancient Greece.
The American Kings
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Author : Robert Kimball Shinkoskey
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-03-04
The American Kings written by Robert Kimball Shinkoskey and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents have studiously ignored Congress and the states and have begun to act like all-powerful kings. U.S. presidents make wild promises to get elected, use temporary crises to expand personal power, publish propaganda to divert attention away from their actions, pass out benefits to favored sections of the population in order to get re-elected, and suppress segments of the population who disagree with them. This book chronicles the story of America's lapse into tyranny at the hands of some of its best-known presidents.
Delphi And Olympia
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Author : Michael Scott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
Delphi And Olympia written by Michael Scott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This book investigates and re-evaluates the remains of the two most important sanctuaries in ancient Greece.
Dictators Democrats Coups Kings And Carpetbaggers
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Author : Arthur Wyndham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Dictators Democrats Coups Kings And Carpetbaggers written by Arthur Wyndham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Elections categories.
This is a personal account of political events in the Philippines and Malaysia from 1986 to the present and of wartime Vietnam in the 1960s. The author is a former ABC broadcaster, television producer, who has spent a number of years in SE Asia reporting the political events from the area.
Official Congressional Directory
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Official Congressional Directory written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
American Legislative Leaders In The Northeast 1911 1994
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Author : James Roger Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-08-30
American Legislative Leaders In The Northeast 1911 1994 written by James Roger Sharp and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-30 with Political Science categories.
The last of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont. Following an analytical introduction, the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the speakers in the Northeast. The volume concludes with statistical appendices based on an exhaustive data base. The book complements volumes on the West, the Midwest, and the South. Together the volumes provide a useful source of information that is difficult to find elsewhere.