Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Date: 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/About Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in white cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine book in About Fine unclipped DJ w/wrinkled crown. xii, 334pp inc. textual footnotes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos and reproductions. 2004. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226734005 9780226734002 [US]

University Of Chicago Press, Date: 2004-12-01. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2004. University Of Chicago Press ISBN 0226734005 9780226734002 [US]

ISBN10: 0226734005, ISBN13: 9780226734002, [publisher: University Of Chicago Press] Hardcover 320 Seiten Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Very good copy! -Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history. Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great sea power (like Athens) and a great land power (like Sparta). Sahlins draws parallels between the conflicts with an eye to their respective systems of power and sovereignty as well as to Thucydides' alternation between individual (Pericles, Themistocles) and collective (the Athenians, the Spartans) actors in the making of history. Characteristic of most histories ever written, this alternation between the agency of "Great Men" and collective entities ...
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University of Chicago Press, Date: 2004-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2004. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226734005 9780226734002 [US]