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    The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 5
    The Gentlemen's Clubs of London
    Clarendon Paperbacks - 1: A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C.
    • The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 5

      The Fifth Century B.C.

      • 620 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Volume V of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History encompasses the first classic age of European civilization—the fifth century B.C. This was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume, therefore, is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece. Athens is at the center of the picture, both politically and culturally, but events and achievements elsewhere are assessed as carefully as the nature of our sources allows. Two series of narrative chapters, one on the growth of the Athenian empire and the development of Athenian democracy, the other on the Peloponnesian War that brought them down, are divided by a series of studies in which the artistic and literary achievements of the fifth century are described.

      The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 52006
    • The Gentlemen's Clubs of London

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Clubland is another country, redolent of the past but, for its few thousand often influential inhabitants, an integral part of life. This book covers around fifty clubs, with over 400 photographs and other illustrations observing grand vistas and quaint details. The text is a distillation of records, recollections, anecdotes and the author's own observations, first published over 30 years ago.

      The Gentlemen's Clubs of London1984