The secret history of democracy

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by  Isakhan, Benjamin, Stockwell, Stephen

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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
NotesonContributors viii
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3 RepublicsandQuasi-DemocraticInstitutionsinAncient se
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7 DemocraticCultureintheEarlyVenetianRepublic 105
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Part III IndigenousDemocracyandColonialism
8 Africa’sIndigenousDemocracies:TheBagandaofUganda 123
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9 TheHuntersWhoOwnedThemselves 136
PhilippePaine
10 AboriginalAustraliaandDemocracy:OldTraditions,
NewChallenges 148
LarissaBehrendt
11 ThePre-HistoryofthePost-ApartheidSettlement:
Non-RacialDemocracyinSouthAfrica’sCapeColony,
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13 TheStreetsofIraq:ProtestsandDemocracyafterSaddam 191 ver
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Acknowledgements
Thisbookcamefromourlongconversationsaboutthenatureandori-
ginsofdemocracy.Suchdialogueswereinspiredbyawide-rangingand
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have worked with such a diverse and dedicated group of contributors, Pal
andwethankthemallfortheirinputandadvice.Wemustmakespecial sity -
mention of Steven Muhlberger and Phillipe Paine, for aiding our very ver
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earliestdiscussionsandideasaboutthisproject,andofJohnKeane,for U
hiscontinuingsupportandencouragement,withoutwhichthisproject cGill
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LaTrobeUniversityandhiscolleaguesattheCentreforDialogue.
Personally, Benjamin would like to thank his family and friends for
their much needed words of encouragement and love. Stephen would
liketothankhisparentsfortheircontinuingsupport,andhiswifeAnn
andhissonMatthewfortheirpatienceandlove.
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Mohamad Abdalla combines the role of serious scholar, imam and
notedpublicintellectual.HehasdegreesinScience(withhonours)and
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Larissa Behrendt is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. She is the Professor sity -
ofLawandDirectorofResearchattheJumbunnaIndigenousHouseof ver
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LearningattheUniversityofTechnology,Sydney.LarissaisaLandCom- U
missionerattheLandandEnvironmentCourtandtheAlternateChair cGill
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oftheSeriousOffendersReviewBoard.Sheistheauthorofseveralbooks o
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onIndigenouslegalissues.Shewonthe2002DavidUniaponAwardand se
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a2005CommonwealthWriter’sPrizeforhernovelHome(Universityof ce
Queensland Press, 2004). Larissa is Board Member of the Museum of m - li
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Patricia Pires Boulhosa has degrees in history and law from the gra
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Pontifical University of Sao Paulo, and a PhD in medieval Icelandic p
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history from the University of Cambridge. She has held the Snorri ww
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SturlusonIcelandicFellowship,andin2006deliveredtheJónSigurðsson o
Memorial Lecture. Her publications include Icelanders and the Kings of al fr
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Norway:MediaevalSagasandLegalTexts(Brill,2005)andGamlisáttmáli: at
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Tilurð og tilgangur (Sögufélag, 2006), as well as articles on the historio- ht
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graphical use of medieval Icelandic texts. She is currently completing yri
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studyofIcelandicmedievalfisheriesandtrade.
Poppy Fry is Assistant Professor of History at Saint Anselm Col-
lege in Manchester, New Hampshire. She received her doctorate from
Harvard University in 2007. Her dissertation explored the relationship
between ethnic identification and British colonial authority in South
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Africa’s Eastern Cape between 1800 and 1936. She is the author of
‘Siyamfenguza:Agriculture,Trade,WitchcraftandtheRiseofFingo-ness
in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1800–1835’, forthcoming in the Journal
ofSouthernAfricanStudies.
K. Luisa Gandolfo is a researcher affiliated to the Centre for Middle
EasternandMediterraneanStudiesatthePanteionUniversityinAthens,
Greece. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Exeter
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Benjamin Isakhan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue at gra
La Trobe University, Australia. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Pal
Griffith Islamic Research Unit, part of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, sity -
Justice and Governance at Griffith University and affiliated with the ver
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National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Australia. Benjamin U
istheauthorofDemocracyinIraq:History,PoliticsandDiscourse(Ashgate, cGill
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2011)aswellasofseveralscholarlybookchapters,refereedjournalarti- o
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cles and conference papers. Broadly, his work concerns issues such as se
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democracyinIraq,thehistoryofdemocracy,Orientalismandthemedia, ce
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John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and n
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at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1989 he founded the ec
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Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD). Among his many books gra
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are The Media and Democracy (Polity, 1991); Democracy and Civil Society p
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(University of Westminster Press, 1988); Reflections on Violence (Verso, ww
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1996); Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions (Polity, 1998); Global Civil o
Society?(CambridgeUniversityPress,2003)andViolenceandDemocracy al fr
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(CambridgeUniversityPress,2004).Hislatestbook,TheLifeandDeathof at
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Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009), is the first comprehensive survey ht
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Pauline Keating is Senior Lecturer in the History Programme at the
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and has taught mod-
ernChinesehistorytheresince1989.Herdoctoralresearch,undertaken
at the Australian National University, is published under the title
Two Revolutions: Rural Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in
Northern Shaanxi, 1934–1945 (Stanford University Press, 1997). She is
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