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Organised crime in antiquity
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- ISBN: 9781905125296
- ISBN: 9780715629055
- ISBN: 1905125291
- ISBN: 0715629050
- ISBN: 9781910589359
- ISBN: 1910589357
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1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Computer data. - Publisher: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, Conn. : Distributor in the United States of America, The David Brown Book Co., 2009.
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| General Note: | "These papers derive from an international conference on organised crime in the ancient world, held at Lampeter in September 1996. Only four of the papers originally presented have not been submitted to the volume."--Page vii CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User. Originally published: London: Duckworth, 1999. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Mafia of early Greece: violence exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC / Hans van Wees -- 'Workshops of villains': was there much organised crime in classical Athens? / Nick Fisher -- Condottieri and clansmen: early Italian raiding, warfare and the state / Louis Rawlings -- The revolt of the Boukoloi: geography, history and myth / Richard Alston -- Native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus / Stephen Mitchell -- Bandits between grandees and the state: the structure of order in Roman Rough Cicilia / Keith Hopwood -- 'You speculate on the misery of the poor': usury as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarea's second homily on Psalm 14 / Susan R. Holman -- The violence of circus factions / Michael Whitby -- Crime and control in Aztec society / Frances R. Berdan. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
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| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Conference papers and proceedings. History. Lampeter (1996) |
