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100			_aGandhi, Leela _914446
245			_aThe Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
260			_aPermanant Black _bRanikhet _c2014
300			_a240p
500			_aEuropeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional.
600			_aHumanities and Social Science _99370
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