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Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy (Verso World History Series)
PeasantCitizen and Slave The Foundations of Athenian Democracy - Verso World History Series
Author: Ellen Meiksins Wood
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781784781026
ISBN-10: 1784781029
Publication Date: 11/3/2015
Pages: 224
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: Verso
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