Bernd Reiter: The African Origins of Democracy, Gebunden

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GLOSSARY.-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.-DEDICATION.-CHAPTER 1.-INTRODUCTION.-TRUE DEMOCRACY.-A COUNTER HISTORY.-LEARNING FROM BOTSWANA.-THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY.-HUNTER-GATHERER EGALITARIANISM.-THE NEED TO LOOK FOR POSSIBILITIES BEYOND REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.-POLITICAL SCIENCE EXPANDED.-METHOD.-INSTITUTIONS.-PLAN OF THIS BOOK.-CHAPTER 2.-LIMITING GREECE AND EXPANDING THE CLASSICS.-DEMOCRACY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN ATHENS AND ROME?.-DEMOCRATIC THEORY.-GREEK DEMOCRACY.-SOLON.-CLEISTHENES.-EPHIALTES.-THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.-BEYOND ATHENS AND ROME.-CRETE.-CONCLUSION.-CHAPTER 3.-DEMOCRATIC HISTORY AND PRE-HISTORY AGAINST THE GRAIN.-DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE.-

CIVILIZATION.-WHERE EQUALITY ENDS.-ADVANCING CIVILIZATION.- KILLING NATIVES AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.-ONLY TRIBES WILL SURVIVE (VINE DELORIA).-THE TIMELINE.-EGALITARIANISM.-CONCLUSION.-CHAPTER 4.-KGOTLA'S ANCIENT ROOTS.-HUNTER GATHERER EGALITARIANISM AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY.-TSWANA HISTORY AND PREHISTORY.-THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION.-COLONIAL BECHUANALAND.-HUNTER-GATHERERS IN BOTSWANA.-AFRICAN COMMUNOCRACIES.-PRECOLONIAL KGOTLA .-CONCLUSION.-CHAPTER 5.-KGOTLA DEMOCRACY TODAY.-DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.-WHAT MAKES A CUSTOM CUSTOMARY?.-CONCLUSION.-Chapter 6.-Women as Democratic Champions.-THE AMAZONS.-WOMEN IN PRE-COLONIAL BOTSWANA.-IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN AND RULE.-CONCLUSION.-CHAPTER 7.-OUT OF AFRICA: SOME POSSIBILITIES ABOUT KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION AFRICA.-OUT OF AFRICA .-NUBIA AND EGYPT BEFORE THE PHARAOHS.-THE MEDITERRANEAN.-GÖBEKLI TEPE.-ÇATALHÖYÜK.-'MINOAN' CRETE.-THE PHOENICIANS.-CONCLUSION.-GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.-DEMOCRATIC HEROES.-A NEW HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY.-DEMOCRATIC GREECE AND ROME SEEN UNDER A NEW LIGHT DIKGOTLA.-DEMOCRACY'S JOURNEY NORTH .-MODERNITY AND TRIBES.-THE CLASSICS RECONSIDERED.-THE NEW BIG PICTURE.-THE NEED TO LOOK BEYOND REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY .-LIMITATIONS.-BIBLIOGRAPHY.