Description

Volume Three of the Critical Perspectives on Historic Issues series

This collection represents a better understanding of ancient people’s attempts at situating economic life within society. Some of the topics covered include a social and economical analysis of ancient, pre-State Greece, Athens in particular; of the classical Maya; the Maori women and slaves; of rural India; rural Kentucky; and of pre-industrial Japan.

Contributors include: Walter Donlan, Ian Morris, John Adams, Vernon Scarborough, William Schaniel.