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Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State (Paperback)
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Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State (Paperback)
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Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly
expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The
landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations
that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While the
local is often seen as less significant than the global stage of
politics, religion, and culture, localism, argues historian Hans
Beck has had a pervasive influence on communal experience in a
world of fast-paced change. Far from existing as outliers, citizens
in these communities were deeply concerned with maintaining local
identity, commercial freedom, distinct religious cults, and much
more. Beyond these cultural identifiers, there lay a deeper concept
of the local that guided polis societies in their contact with a
rapidly expanding world. Drawing on a staggering range of
materials----including texts by both known and obscure writers,
numismatics, pottery analysis, and archeological records--Beck
develops fine-grained case studies that illustrate the significance
of the local experience. Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State
builds bridges across disciplines and ideas within the humanities
and shows how looking back at the history of Greek localism is
important not only in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean,
but also in today's conversations about globalism, networks, and
migration.
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