7. How Democracy Disappeared in the Islamic World

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part I. Early Democracy
6. 1. Origins of Democratic Rule 3
7. 2. Early Democracy Was Widespread 29
8. 3. Weak States Inherited Democracy 62
9. 4. When Technology Undermined Democracy 79
10. Part II. The Divergence
11. 5. The Development of Representation in Europe 101
12. 6. China as the Bureaucratic Alternative 138
13. 7. How Democracy Disappeared in the Islamic World 166
14. 8. Democracy and Economic Development over the Long Run 181
15. Part III. Modern Democracy
16. 9. Why England Was Different 197
17. 10. Democracy—and Slavery—in America 225
18. 11. The Spread of Modern Democracy 256
19. 12. The Ongoing Democratic Experiment 296
20. Acknowledgments 309
21. Notes 311
22. Bibliography 349
23. Index 391
24. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 411