Feeding the democracy : the Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. /

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The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the an...

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Athenian grain supply in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
1. Verfasser:
Moreno, Alfonso
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Zusammenfassung:
The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern Russia, and this trade was ultimatelycontrolled by powerful politicians, wealthy landowners, and kings. Alfonso Moreno examines how this resource need determi
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1 online resource (xix, 420 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [345]-372) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-160778-9
0-19-965694-0
1-282-56376-9
9786612563768
0-19-152790-4
Schlagworte:
Grain trade > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
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