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The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. New York-London: The Free Press, 1995. Pp. xvi + 541. $28.00. This is a good book and a passionate book and its goodness-the serious exploration of the scholarly thesis and its details-is very closely related to the passion that inspired ...
Jun 1, 2022 · The other Greeks : the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization. by. Hanson, Victor Davis. Publication date. 1995. Topics. Land use, Rural -- Greece -- History, Agriculture, Ancient -- Greece, Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Greece -- History, Family farms -- Greece -- History, Civilization, Classical, Greece ...
Dec 22, 1999 · Victor Hanson shows that the real "Greek revolution" was not merely the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm. The farmers, vinegrowers, and herdsmen of ancient Greece are "the other Greeks," who formed the backbone of Hellenic civilization.
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- Victor Davis Hanson
- $36.95
- University of California Press
Dec 22, 1999 · University of California Press, Dec 22, 1999 - History - 566 pages. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the...
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization is a 1995 book by Victor Davis Hanson, in which the author describes the underlying agriculturally centered laws, warfare, and family life of the Greek Archaic or polis period.
- Victor Davis Hanson
- 1995
Jan 1, 1996 · PDF | On Jan 1, 1996, P. J. Matthews published The other Greeks: The family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
Jun 1, 1995 · A unique reconstruction of ancient Greek agricultural life reveals the "other Greece" at the root of Western civilization--the freehold farmers, vine growers, and herdsmen of ancient Attica who constituted the backbone of Greek democracy.
- Hardcover
- Victor Davis Hanson
