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  • Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

    by Hans Beck ...
    A Greek historian investigates the importance of local identity in the Mediterranean world in a "rare, genuinely original book . . . Highly recommended" ( Choice).Much as our modern world is interconnected through global networks, the ancient Greek city-states were a dynamic part of the wider Mediterranean landscape. In Localism and the Ancient Greek World, historian Hans Beck argues that local ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boiotia in Antiquity

    Selected Papers

    by Albert Schachter, Hans Beck ...
    Boiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects of its history, institutions, cults, and literature from late Mycenaean times to the Roman Empire, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Roman Republic and Political Culture

    German Scholarship in Translation

    Edited by Amy Russell, Hans Beck ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    This volume makes available in English translation for the first time a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. They represent a school of thought that has long been in dialogue with Anglophone research but has not always been accessible to all English-speakers, leaving many listening to only one side of a conversation. ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Oxford History of the Classical Greek World

    Volume I: The Environment and Resources

    Edited by Hans Beck, Christy Constantakopoulou, Jeremy McInerney ...
    Series series Oxford History of the Classical Greek World
    The Oxford History of the Classical Greek World (OHCGW) offers a new comprehensive account of the history and culture of ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Over seven volumes, the series deals with all aspects of the Greek world during this seminal period of Classical antiquity, from the Persian Wars to the Age of Alexander the Great. The scope is broad both in geographic and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Big Science

    Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers

    Edited by Hans Peter Beck, Panagiotis Charitos ...
    Series series Science Policy Reports
    The essays in this open access volume identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects and the development of large-scale research infrastructures.Investment in science – whether in education and training or through public funding for developing new research tools and technologies – is a crucial priority. Authors from big research laboratories ... Read more

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  • The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Hans Beck, Julia Kindt ...
    Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Consuls and Res Publica

    Holding High Office in the Roman Republic

    Edited by Hans Beck, Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne, Francisco Pina Polo ...
    The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the defining magistracy of their social status, the latter perceived it as the embodiment of the Roman state. Holding high office ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

    Edited by Hans Beck, Griet Vankeerberghen ...
    Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many similarities between both cultures have been detected, which has ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Federalism in Greek Antiquity

    Edited by Hans Beck, Peter Funke ...
    The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisticated and varied experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creative response to the challenge of establishing regional unity, while at the same time preserving a degree of local autonomy. To reconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

    Edited by Hans Beck, Griet Vankeerberghen ...
    Series series Antiquity in Global Context
    This book examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in specific locations. It highlights conceptions of place and performance, seeing both as crucial to the production of cultural meaning and communal cohesion, and as heavily dependent on the prevailing political culture. Whether urban or rural, global or ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Living and Business

    Management of Social Innovations as a Shaping of Social Transformation

    Edited by Hans-Werner Franz, Gerald Beck, Diego Compagna, Peter Dürr, Wolfgang Gehra, Martina Wegner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019.The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Localism in Hellenistic Greece

    Edited by Sheila Ager, Hans Beck ...
    Series Book 61 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD