The rise and fall of classical Greece / Josiah Ober
- Author
- Ober, Josiah
- Published
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- The efflorescence of classical Greece -- Ants around a pond : an ecology of city-states -- Political animals : a theory of decentralized cooperation -- Wealthy Hellas : measuring efflorescence -- Explaining Hellas' wealth -- Citizens and specialization, to 550 BCE -- From tyranny to democracy, 550-465 BCE -- Golden age of empire, 478-404 BCE -- Disorder and growth, 403-340 BCE -- Political fall, 359-334 BCE -- Creative destruction and immortality -- Appendix I: Regions of the Greek world -- Appendix II: King, City, Elite game / Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast.
- Summary
- Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. He argues that Greece's rise was no miracle but rather the result of political breakthroughs and economic development.
- Subject(s)
- To 1500
- Social change—Greece—History—To 1500
- City-states—Greece—History
- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
- PHILOSOPHY / Political
- City-states
- Civilization
- Economic history
- Political science
- Social change
- Greece—Civilization—To 146 B.C.
- Greece—Politics and government—To 146 B.C.
- Greece—Economic conditions—To 146 B.C.
- Greece
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780691140919 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
069114091X (hardcover : acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-400) and index.
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