M. I. Finley : an ancient historian and his impact
- Publication/Creation:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- M. I. Finley : an ancient historian and his impact / edited by Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne, Michael Scott
- Series Titles:
- Cambridge classical studies
Cambridge classical studies.
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Jew, Daniel, 1973-, editor
Osborne, Robin, 1957-, editor
Scott, Michael, 1981-, editor
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings
Electronic books - Subjects:
- Finley, M. I.(Moses I.),1912-1986--Influence--Congresses
Historians--United States--Congresses
Historians--Great Britain--Congresses
Classicists--United States--Congresses
Classicists--Great Britain--Congresses
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Finley's impact -- a balance sheet / Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne and Michael Scott; 2. The making of Moses Finley / Daniel P. Tompkins; 3. The impact of Studies in Land and Credit / Paul Millett; 4. Finley's impact on Homer / Robin Osborne; 5. Finley's slavery / Kostas Vlassopoulos; 6. Finley and Sicily / Jonathan R. W. Prag; 7. Finley and the teaching of ancient history / Dorothy J. Thompson; 8. Finley's journalism / Mary Beard; 9. Finley and the University of Cambridge / Geoffrey Lloyd; 10. Finley and other scholars: the case of Finley and Momigliano / Peter Garnsey; 11. Finley's democracy / Paul Cartledge; 12. Finley and the ancient economy / Alessandro Launaro; 13. Finley and archaeology / Jennifer Gates-Foster; 14. Finley's impact on the continent / Wilfried Nippel; 15. Measuring Finley's impact / Walter Scheidel.
- Summary:
- M. I. Finley (1912-86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his polemical reviews and other journalism were found all over the broadsheets and weeklies, and his scholarly as well as his popular works sold in very large numbers as Penguin paperbacks. Yet this was also a man dismissed from his job at Rutgers University when he refused to answer the question of whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. This pioneering volume assesses Finley's achievements and analyses the nature of the impact of this charismatic individual and the means by which he changed the world of ancient history.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- General Note:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016).
- Local Note:
- Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936928200402486
- ISBN:
- 9781316569276
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