1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996204970903316

Titolo

The monetary systems of the Greeks and Romans [[electronic resource] /] / edited by W. V. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-161517-X

0-19-958671-3

1-281-15052-5

9786611150525

0-19-152846-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisWilliam Vernon

Disciplina

332.4/937

Soggetti

Money - Rome - History

Money - Greece - History

Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Greece Economic conditions To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems



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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973523103321

Titolo

Schools as Imagined Communities : The Creation of Identity, Meaning, and Conflict in U.S. History / / by S. Dorn, B. Shircliffe, D. Cobb-Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611369569

9781281369567

128136956X

9781403982933

1403982937

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Cobb-RobertsDeirdre

DornSherman

ShircliffeBarbara J

Disciplina

371.19/0973

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.