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Empire of Democracy

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Empire of Democracy

By Simon Reid-Henry

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Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next - a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew.In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our ow...Show more

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9781473670556

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John Murray Press

Published year

2019

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Empire of Democracy

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Hardcover

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