Democracy and Civilization: A Contribution to the Understanding of the Problems of Contemporary Civilization and Politics
by Jones, Geraint Vaughan
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London, England, U.K.: Hutchinson, 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is an attempt to approach the problems of civilization and history from the standpoint of Christian thinking; it is a defense of liberal democracy which the author regards as the best hope for a reasonable organization of society incorporating, encouraging, and disseminating the values which approximate most closely those implied in the Christian conception of man and society; no date of publication, author's preface dated February, 1946 (red cloth with slightly faded gold lettering, slightly tanned pages, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
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- 002306
- Title
- Democracy and Civilization: A Contribution to the Understanding of the Problems of Contemporary Civilization and Politics
- Author
- Jones, Geraint Vaughan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London, England, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- NOISBN
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