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The Discovery of Practical Reason
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performa...
Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? These questions are examined by this book....
Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory
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 ...
Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens
When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States...
Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People
This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and f...
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical e...
A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and im...
A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern
This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. Th...
Essays on the Politics of Going On Together
How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over t...
Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists
Presents the flawed strategies of eight military leaders including Mark Antony, Hannibal, and Jugurtha...
Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, 404-322 B.C.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Montana State University, 1980....
How Democracy Survives
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and pol...
Athens in 403 BCE
The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history. In the wake of Athenian milit...
Athens in 403 B.C.
Part of the Reacting to the Past series, The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in the h...