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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed and stained jacket, small damage in back of the binding, otherwise very good and clean. / Beriebener und angeschmutzter Umschlag, kleine Besch�gung auf der R�ckseite des Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - This is the first full work since Hasebroek�s Trade and Politics in the Ancient World to deal directly with the place of maritime traders in ancient Greece. Its main assumption is that traders� juridical, economic, political, and unofficial standing can only be viewed correctly through the lens of the polis framework. It argues that those engaging in inter-regional trade with classical Athens were mainly poor and foreign (hence politically inert at Athens). Furthermore, Athens, as well as other classical Greek poleis, resorted to limited measures well short of war or other modes of economic imperialism to attract them. However, at least in the minds of individual Athenians, considerations of traders� indispensability to Athens displaced what otherwise would have been low estimations of their social status. - C. M. Reed is William States Lee Professor of History at Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina. ISBN 9780521268486