Democracy

Focusing on local movements to achieve equal distribution of social, economic, and political rights and natural resources, Democracy examines how ordinary and extraordinary men and women of different cultural and religious backgrounds have formed and attempted to sustain institutions that would permit them to live together in equality and peace.

Temma Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. A longtime teacher, scholar, and activist in pursuit of social justice, she has brought all thse commitments to bear in her studies of the Spanish anarchsits, picasso in barcelona, women's struggles to fight environmental and political racism in from South Africa to North Carolina, and in the worldwide attempts of ordinary people to create and sustain the democratic institutions that would enable them to live together in justice and peace.

Contents
Editors' Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Parting the Waters and Organizing the People
Chapter 2 Prophetic Movements and Cities of Promise
Chapter 3 Democracy against All Odds
Chapter 4 Which People Shall Rule?
Chapter 5 Social Revolution and Participatory Democracy
Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and Racial Justice
Chapter 7 Optimism and Outrage in Struggles for Democracy
Chapter 8 New World Dawning
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments
Index