The Palace of Crystal: A World Without WarWar has blighted the security and happiness of humanity from time immemorial, but when two hundred years ago the colonies in North America broke away from British rule and established the United States, it was seen as a hopeful promise for the peoples of the world. A new democracy had been launched wherein all (or at least, the majority) were deemed to be created equal in respect of their rights, and were citizens and not subjects, in a land of self-confident individualism, which was not only free of the hereditary-based authoritarianism of the Old World, but more significantly, seemed destined to live at peace with the great nation states beyond their frontiers. It was a nation where government was minimised to ensure freedom in the spheres of commerce, religion, and private life, but the ideals of universal concord were not so easily to be achieved by either the efforts of this new people, or by the world at large. |
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... Democracy is of fairly recent invention at least in its modern , representative form . In Athens democracy demanded involvement of every ( male , free ) citizen , but pressure of increasing population soon made this form impossibly ...
... Democracy is of fairly recent invention at least in its modern , representative form . In Athens democracy demanded involvement of every ( male , free ) citizen , but pressure of increasing population soon made this form impossibly ...
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... Modern democracies , which are driven by powerful leaders and clandestine decision - making , differ markedly from those early conceptions of how a democracy ought to operate . The original New World model is hardly recognisable in the ...
... Modern democracies , which are driven by powerful leaders and clandestine decision - making , differ markedly from those early conceptions of how a democracy ought to operate . The original New World model is hardly recognisable in the ...
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... modern democracy into something more suitable ? After some centuries of attempts at representative democracy , an outline of what to strive for has found a good measure of general agreement . Once faith has been placed in a kind of ...
... modern democracy into something more suitable ? After some centuries of attempts at representative democracy , an outline of what to strive for has found a good measure of general agreement . Once faith has been placed in a kind of ...
Contents
Consequences | 9 |
Chapter Two The Changing face of War | 17 |
Chapter Three Stony Ground | 29 |
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