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The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West - Revealing Antiquity Aldo Schiavone
The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West - Revealing Antiquity
Aldo Schiavone
Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry.
288 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 30, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674009837 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 227 × 153 × 21 mm · 484 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Schneider, Margery J. |