{"product_id":"the-class-struggle-in-the-ancient-greek-world-by-g-e-m-de-ste-croix-9781804298558","title":"The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and influential reconstruction of Classical Antiquity through a Marxist lens. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix explores the personality of the Ancient world as a slave economy. He traces the social origins of Athenian democracy and the later decline of the Greek city-states in the Roman era, and offers an innovative class-based explanation for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Comparing the late Roman political-fiscal system to a ‘vampire bat’, Ste. Croix argues that serfdom and a tightening fiscal screw left the peasant masses with an attitude of indifference to the Empire’s fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1981, \u003ci\u003eThe Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World\u003c\/i\u003e was recognised by Ernst Badian in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e as ‘The only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘A landmark in the field of ancient history’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘An astonishing achievement’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Few contributions to ancient history are read much longer than a generation. There are exceptions, such as Edward Gibbon and George Grote; Geoffrey, I suspect, will join that company.’\u003cbr\u003eDavid Harvey, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461507563756,"sku":"9781804298558","price":97.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804298558-the-class-struggle-in-the-ancient-greek-world.jpg?v=1774970040","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-class-struggle-in-the-ancient-greek-world-by-g-e-m-de-ste-croix-9781804298558","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}