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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
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Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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 revolution
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-26 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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