The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

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Ober, Josiah

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

448 Seiten

Englisch

Princeton University Presserschienen am04.10.2016

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Mimehr

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KlappentextLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Mi

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-17314-6

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2016

Erscheinungsdatum04.10.2016

Seiten448 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht528 g

Illustrationen1 b&w ill., 14 line ill.

Artikel-Nr.37678840

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Images and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi Abbreviations xxv 1 The Efflorescence of Classical Greece 1 2 Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States 21 3 Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation 45 4 Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence 71 5 Explaining Hellas' Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition 101 6 Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE 123 7 From Tyranny to Democracy, 550-465 BCE 157 8 Golden Age of Empire, 478-404 BCE 191 9 Disorder and Growth, 403-340 BCE 223 10 Political Fall, 359-334 BCE 261 11 Creative Destruction and Immortality 293 Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame 317 Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game, Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast 321 Notes 329 Bibliography 367 Index 401mehr

Kritik

"In the late fourth century B.C., Aristotle and his students collected the constitutions of more than 150 [] city-states. The scholar who would today follow in Aristotle's footsteps has to deal with a far more formidable mass of data. Few of today's scholars control more of this data, or write about it more insightfully, than Josiah Ober. [T]hose willing to put in the effort will learn much from the deep meditations of an expert historian and political philosopher."--James Romm, Wall Street Journalmehr