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Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens
Hans Van Wees
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Description for Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens
Paperback. The first book to approach the ancient Greek economy along the lines of the "new fiscal history", new in paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 246.
Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the driving force behind its democracy and the centre of its system of public finance. But in his groundbreaking new book, Hans van Wees argues otherwise. He shows that Themistocles did not transform Athens, but merely expanded a navy-centred system of public finance ... Read more
Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the driving force behind its democracy and the centre of its system of public finance. But in his groundbreaking new book, Hans van Wees argues otherwise. He shows that Themistocles did not transform Athens, but merely expanded a navy-centred system of public finance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534325
SKU
V9781784534325
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About Hans Van Wees
Hans van Wees is Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. His books include Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare: vol 1, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome (edited with Philip Sabin and Michael Whitby), War and Violence in Archaic Greece and A Companion to Archaic Greece (edited with ... Read more
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