Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap 9780300062601

Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community 9780300145984

Norma Thompson opens a new angle of political vision in this imaginative and engaging interpretation of Herodotus'

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Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

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States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political 9780231528665

We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power,

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Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus 0472112031, 9780472112036

As he explores the causes of the East-West conflict from its most remote antecedents, Herodotus includes conflicting tra

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The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution 9780801474187, 0801474183

Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary im

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Herodotus and the Question Why 9781477318331

In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytellin

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The Historical Method of Herodotus 9781442675773

The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and t

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Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics 9780823292745

Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about the origins and possibilitie

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The History of Herodotus [Reprint ed.]

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The Historical Method of Herodotus 9781442675773, 1442675772

Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way

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