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UNISA996204970903316 |
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Titolo |
The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W. V. Harris |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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0-19-161517-X |
0-19-958671-3 |
1-281-15052-5 |
9786611150525 |
0-19-152846-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Money - Rome - History |
Money - Greece - History |
Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D |
Greece Economic conditions To 146 B.C |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The monetary use of weighed bullion in archaic Greece / John H. Kroll -- What was money in ancient Greece and Rome? / David M. Schaps -- Money and tragedy / Richard Seaford -- The elasticity of the money-supply at Athens / Edward E. Cohen -- Coinage as 'code' in Ptolemaic Egypt / J. G. Manning -- The demand for money in the late Roman Republic / David B. Hollander -- Money and prices in the early Roman Empire / David Kessler and Peter Temin -- The function of gold coinage in the monetary economy of the Roman Empire / Elio Lo Cascio -- The nature of Roman money / W. V. Harris -- The use and survival of coins and of gold and silver in the Vesuvian cities / Jean Andreau -- Money and credit in Roman Egypt / Peter van Minnen -- The monetization of the Roman frontier provinces : a quantitative revision / Constantina Katsari -- The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia / Walter Scheidel. |
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Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems |
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eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system. Why did people first start using coins? How did Greeks and Romans make payments, large or small? What does money mean in Greek tragedy?Was the Roman Empire an integrated economic system? This volume can serve as an introduction to such questions, but |
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UNINA9910973523103321 |
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Schools as Imagined Communities : The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History / / by S. Dorn, B. Shircliffe, D. Cobb-Roberts |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
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ISBN |
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9786611369569 |
9781281369567 |
128136956X |
9781403982933 |
1403982937 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2006.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XI, 217 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cobb-RobertsDeirdre |
DornSherman |
ShircliffeBarbara J |
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School management and organization |
Political science |
Education - Philosophy |
United States - History |
Educational sociology |
Organization and Leadership |
Political Science |
Philosophy of Education |
Educational Philosophy |
US History |
Sociology of Education |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : schools as imagined communities / Barbara J. Shircliffe, Sherman Dorn, and Deirdre Cobb-Roberts -- Education in an imagined community : lessons from Brook Farm / Vicki L. Eaklor -- Crafting community : Hartford Public High School in the nineteenth century / Melissa Ladd Teed -- Student-community voices : memories of access versus treatment at University of Illinois / Deirdre Cobb-Roberts -- From isolation to imagined communities of LGBT school workers : activism in the 1970s / Jackie M. Blount -- School and community loss, yet still imagined in the oral history of school segregation in Tampa, Florida / Barbara J. Shircliffe -- Imagined communities and special education / Sherman Dorn -- The Glover School historic site : rekindling the spirit of an African American school community / Elgin Klugh. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Government forces mean the notion of a 'community' school has become less defined by decisions on core curriculum. This collection explores the extent to which collective notions of school-community relations have prevented citizens from speaking openly about the tensions created where schools are imagined as communities. |
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