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199 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband begriffen und Rücken oben etwas lädiert, das Papier lichtbedingt etwas nachgedunkelt. Rubbed and scuffed binding with greasy finger prints on front. Occasional pencil entries and one filler entry on endpapers. Due to age brownish spottings on endpapers and bleached spine. Otherwise in very good condition. - Content: The essays which form the body of this volume were written at the time when I was feeling my way towards the general view of Greek life that I worked out later in The Greek Commonwealth. Two of them were, in fact, originally composed as introductory chapters of that book, whilst the others embody ideas and material which its readers will readily recognise. It is thought that, even after this lapse of time, or perhaps for that very reason, they will be of interest to present-day readers, and they are therefore reproduced substantially as they were written. Of these six essays the only one that would seem to call for a word of comment is the last. It was written at a time when the relations between abstract economic science and historical studies had not been so fully developed as to-day, and when to confront Thucydides and the Corpus Inscriptionum with Bagehot. Mill and Marshall seemed an adventurous task for a young enquirer. There was a phase when " the stillness and simplicity " of abstract economics attracted me to the point of dreaming of a political economy of the City-State. But I eventually decided that, however indispensable the discipline of economic theory may be for the student of antiquity, it is even less possible to separate politics from economics in the study of the ancient world than it is for that of to-day. Hence, when I came to write out what I had to say, economic forces took up only one-half of the volume, and the treatment adopted for them was after all dynamic rather than static. Those who have dealt with the subject since, notably Glotz and Rostovtzeff, evidently came to the same conclusion, whether or not they arrived at it by the same route as I. I have added an introductory essay arising out of more recent preoccupations, for which I would bespeak the particular attention of all those, whether Greek-trained or not, who value the survival in our post-war society of that respect for the life of the mind which is inseparably associated with the Greek tradition. I am indebted to the editor of the Sociological Review and to Mr. Geoffrey Whitworth, late editor of the Open Window, respectively, for permission to reprint Was Greek Civilization based on Slave Labour ? and History as an Art. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1169663
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