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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean economy.0 Chris Armstrong reveals how existing governing institutions are failing to respond to the most pressing problems of our time,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato,...
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