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An Island Polity: The Archaeology Of Exploitation In Melos
1982A2648xiv361 pages with diagrams charts tables figures maps illustrations photograms appendixes bibliography and index. Quarto 11" x 9 3/4" bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. <br /><br />The Greek island of Melos in the Cyclades has been inhabited for at least five thousand years. Two periods of its history are well documented: the late Bronze Age when it supported an important urban centre at Phylakopi and the late fifth century BC when as an independent city-state it briefly defied and was then destroyed by the expansionist power of Athens. The case of Melos is thus relevant to the understanding of the processes of early state-formation and of the integration of small-scale societies into larger political units. As the contributors to this volume show a small island provides a very suitable area - clearly defined self-contained - in which to examine the processes of social cultural and economic change and the forces - sometimes gradual and almost imperceptible in their effect sometimes sudden and dramatic - by which changes are initiated.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> Review tipped to front paste down lightly soiled. Jacket edge wear. spine sunned else very good lin like jacket. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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