The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
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The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and influential reconstruction of Classical Antiquity through a Marxist lens. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix explores the personality of the Ancient world as a slave economy. He traces the social origins of Athenian democracy and the later decline of the Greek city-states in the Roman era, and offers an innovative class-based explanation for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Comparing the late Roman political-fiscal system to a 'vampire bat', Ste. Croix argues that serfdom and a tightening fiscal screw left the peasant masses with an attitude of indifference to the Empire's fate.
First published in 1981, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World was recognised by Ernst Badian in the New York Review of Books as 'The only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme'.
'A landmark in the field of ancient history'
New Republic
'An astonishing achievement'
Sunday Times
'Few contributions to ancient history are read much longer than a generation. There are exceptions, such as Edward Gibbon and George Grote; Geoffrey, I suspect, will join that company.'
David Harvey, Guardian
Geoffrey de Ste. Croix (1910-2000) was a Fellow of New College, Oxford and one of the most distinguished ancient historians of his generation. He is the author of The Origins of the Peloponnesian War and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize.
I Introduction
II Class, Exploitation, and Class Struggle
III Property and the Propertied
IV Forms of Exploitation in the Ancient Greek World, and the Small Independent Producer
V The Class Struggle in Greek History on the Political Plane
VI Rome the Suzerain
VII The Class Struggle on the Ideological Plane
VIII The 'Decline and Fall' of the Roman Empire: an Explanation
Appendices
Bibliography (and Abbreviations)
Index
APPENDICES
Select Bibliography (and List of Abbreviations)
General Index
Index of Sources
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 900 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80429-855-7 / 1804298557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80429-855-8 / 9781804298558 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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