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Informationen zum Autor Temma Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. A longtime teacher, scholar, and activist in pursuit of social justice, she has brought all thse commitments to bear in her studies of the Spanish anarchsits, picasso in barcelona, women's struggles to fight environmental and political racism in from South Africa to North Carolina, and in the worldwide attempts of ordinary people to create and sustain the democratic institutions that would enable them to live together in justice and peace. Klappentext Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace. Zusammenfassung Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Editors' Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Parting the Waters and Organizing the People Chapter 2 Prophetic Movements and Cities of Promise Chapter 3 Democracy against All Odds Chapter 4 Which People Shall Rule? Chapter 5 Social Revolution and Participatory Democracy Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and Racial Justice Chapter 7 Optimism and Outrage in Struggles for Democracy Chapter 8 New World Dawning Chronology Notes Further Reading Websites Acknowledgments Index
