Peasant Citizen And Slave by Ellen Wood
A concise critical study of classical Athenian politics that links the rise of democracy to underlying social and economic relations: smallholding peasants and their struggles against aristocratic landowners, the definition and limits of citizen rights, and the system’s reliance on slave labor and imperial domination. The author argues that Athenian democratic institutions cannot be understood apart from property relations and class conflict, and she challenges idealized portrayals by showing how political freedoms for citizens were founded on exclusion and exploitation.
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