Ellen Meiksins Wood Peasant-Citizen and Slave (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Peasant-Citizen and SlaveCondition: NewEAN: 9780860919117ISBN: 9780860919117Publisher: Verso BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/17/1989Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 347gAuthor: Ellen Meiksins WoodLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Foundations of Athenian DemocracyISBN-10: 0860919110Description: The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with recent arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography. This book will be of great interest to ancient historians, classicists, anthropologists and political theorists, as well as to a wider reading public.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 1989 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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