The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

The Common Cause Gandhi Leela Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press Data wydania: 2014 ISBN: 9780226019901 Liczba stron: 256 Format: 151 x 225 x 21 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book, the authors recover stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.