The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-StatesSpringer, 19 มิ.ย. 2017 - 1736 หน้า This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of humans, as both an animal and a consciously aware being, underpins the analysis presented. Part One covers tribes. It uses anthropological literature to describe the “campfire democracy” of the African Bushmen, the Pygmies, and other band societies. Its main focus is on the tribal democracy of the Cheyenne, Iroquois, Huron, and other tribes, and it pays special attention to the role of women in tribal democracies. Part Two describes the city-states of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia, and includes a section on the theocracy of the Jews. This part focuses on the transition from tribal democracy to city-state democracy in the ancient Middle East – from the Sumerian city-states to the Phoenician. Part Three focuses on the origins of democracy and covers Greece—Mycenaean, Dorian, and the Golden Age. It presents a detailed description of the tribal democracy of Archaic Greece – emphasizing the causal effect of the hoplite-phalanx military formation in egalitarianizing Greek tribal society. Next, it analyses the transition from tribal to city-state democracy—with the new commercial classes engendering the oligarchic and democratic conflicts described by Plato and Aristotle. Part Four describes the Norse tribes as they contacted Rome, the rise of kingships, the renaissance of the city-states, and the parliamentary monarchies of the emerging nation-states. It provides details of the rise of commercial city states in Renaissance Italy, Hanseatic Germany and the Netherlands. |
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Horticultural Villages Tribes MatriClans and the Rise of Theoretic Priesthoods | 157 |
Pastoral Herding Tribes PatriClans and the Rise of the Military Kingship | 211 |
Conclusions The Paradoxes of Tribes | 277 |
From Tribal Society to CityStates in the Ancient Middle East | 290 |
The Rise of the Greek CityStates | 968 |
The Full Flowering of Greek Democracy | 1045 |
The Rise of the RationalScientific WorldView | 1099 |
Women in Ancient Greece Economic Religious and Sexual RolesBut No Political Role | 1165 |
The Norse Tribes From Tribal Democracy and Aristocracy to CityState Democracy and the KinglyBureaucratic State | 1222 |
The Norse Tribes Before and During Contact with Roman Civilization | 1223 |
The Culture and Social Structure of the Norse Tribes as Seen Through the Norse Myths | 1338 |
Germanic Regions Not Under Kingly Control Iceland The Netherlands and Switzerland | 1437 |
Mesopotamia Vestiges of Tribal Democracy in the CityStates and the Rise of the KinglyBureaucratic State | 291 |
Vestiges of Tribal Democracy and the Rise of Commercial Oligarchy in the CityStates of Syria Canaan and Phoenica | 418 |
Israel From Pastoral Tribalism to Mosaic Monotheism to Monarchy and After Babylon to Theocracy | 547 |
The Kings and Prophets in the Land of Canaan | 643 |
The Babylonian Exile The Return and the Establishment of the Worlds First Pure Theocracy | 690 |
Monotheism vs Polytheism Human Self Conciousness the Domination of Nature and the Valuation of Human Life | 721 |
Greece | 741 |
PreGreek Civilizations and Mycenaean Civilization | 742 |
The Collapse of Mycenaean Civilizations and the ReTribalizations of Greece | 770 |
The Heavy Armored Phalanx and the Democratic Revolution | 849 |
The ReCivilization of Greece | 919 |
The Main Thrust of Norse Political Development The Centralization of the Kingship | 1462 |
The Rise of Independent TradeCapitalist CityStates in Europe | 1498 |
The Reformation The Spirit of Capitalism Individualism and Democracy | 1564 |
The Rise of National Representative Assemblies | 1577 |
Great Britain | 1596 |
The United States France Spain and Germany | 1680 |
Industrial Capitalism and Democracy | 1699 |
Womens Liberation From Horticultural MatriClans and the Fertility Goddess to Modern Democratic Feminism | 1718 |
Epilogue | 1729 |
Bibliography | 1734 |
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