The Democratic Invention (A Journal of Democracy Book)
Contributors: Marc F. Plattner (Editor); João Carlos Espada (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801864193
Subjects: International relations; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Politics - Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Utopias; Politics/International Relations; Revolutions; Government - Comparative; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Constitutions; Democracy
First sentence: Some five hundred years ago a small group of Portuguese leaders and thinkers-including King John II, Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomew Dias, and Vasco da Gama-acting with courage, determination, and imagination, inaugurated a new phase in human history, the age of discovery.