{"product_id":"9781444351064","title":"The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAncient World: Comparative Histories\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJohann P. Arnason | Kurt A. Raaflaub | Peter Wagner\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Ancient \/ Greece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek \u003ci\u003epolis -\u003c\/i\u003e city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohann P. Arnason \u003c\/b\u003eis Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. His previous works include \u003ci\u003eDomains and Divisions of European History \u003c\/i\u003e(with N. Doyle, 2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives \u003c\/i\u003e(with K. Raaflaub, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and \u003ci\u003eNordic Paths to Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e(with B. Wittrock, 2012). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt A. Raaflaub \u003c\/b\u003eis the David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University. His previous works include \u003ci\u003eGeography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies \u003c\/i\u003e(with R. J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), \u003ci\u003eEpic and History \u003c\/i\u003e(with D. Konstan, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives \u003c\/i\u003e(with J. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wagner \u003c\/b\u003eis ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Law, and Methodology of the Social Sciences at the University of Barcelona. 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