Download or read book War and Democracy written by David Richard McCann and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together distinguished Classicists, Koreanists, and Americanists, this book examines the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on society by comparing the effects of prolonged war on ancient Athens during the war with Sparta, and on the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. Despite the very circumstances of the two conflicts and the radically different way each was viewed in its own time, the contributors point to many underlying similarities between the two wars and put each in a fascinating and unique perspective.