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    From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexan
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    From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexan

    By Michael Scott

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    Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world was turned from a democracy into a monarchy in this superb example of popular history writing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateSep 16, 2010
    ISBN9781468302806
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    From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexan
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    Michael Scott

    Michael Scott, OBE, is a writer and broadcaster with a training in botany and education, and a special interest in Scottish mountain flowers. He has run many adult education classes on wild flowers and leads natural history courses and study tours. He is Scottish Officer of the conservation charity Plantlife and edits Scottish Environment News.

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      An engaging writer, Michael Scott's book is deceptively easy to read, making sense of a period of ancient Greek history which changed the world.