- Description
- xxv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- The Princeton history of the ancient world
- Uniform Title
- Princeton history of the ancient world.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-400) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-4375
- ISBN
- 9780691140919 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 069114091X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2014037623
- OCLC
- 902137704
- Author
Ober, Josiah.
- Title
The rise and fall of classical Greece / Josiah Ober.
- Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
The Princeton history of the ancient world
Princeton history of the ancient world.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-400) and index.
- Chronological Term
To 1500
- Research Call Number
JFE 15-4375