Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy by Ellen Meiksins Wood

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Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy

Ellen Meiksins Wood

224 pages digital 1988

4 editions

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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...

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