Wood Ellen Meiksins
Wood Ellen Meiksins - Peasant - Citizen And Slave The Foundations Of Athenian Democracy - Paperback
Wood Ellen Meiksins - Peasant - Citizen And Slave The Foundations Of Athenian Democracy - Paperback
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Description: 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 influential 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.
Title: Peasant - Citizen And Slave The Foundations Of Athenian Democracy
Author(s): Wood Ellen Meiksins
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784781026
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/3/2015
Series: Verso World History
Category: Civil Rights & Citizenship
Description: 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 influential 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.
Title: Peasant - Citizen And Slave The Foundations Of Athenian Democracy
Author(s): Wood Ellen Meiksins
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784781026
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/3/2015
Series: Verso World History
Category: Civil Rights & Citizenship
