Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Kostas Vlassopoulos

Book Overview

Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is embedded in the assumptions of Western powers who proclaim their faith in the global spread of democratic governance and at the same time wielded by protesters in the developing world who challenge what they view as the West's cultural imperialism. Thus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195380894
• ISBN13: 9780195380897
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"