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The rise and fall of classical Greece / Josiah Ober

This history examines the economic and political factors behind classical Greece's prosperity and urbanisation. It analyses how citizen-centred city-states achieved sustained growth before their defeat by Macedon and subsequent influence on the Roman Empire.

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