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Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...
Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Theory and the Disappearing Future
On de Man, On Benjamin
Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture...
Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
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China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the...
Published May 21st 2003 by Routledge