How Long to Read Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute

How Long Does it Take to Read Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute by Hans van Wees

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the driving force behind its democracy and the centre of its system of public finance. But in his groundbreaking new book, Hans van Wees argues otherwise. He shows that Themistocles did not transform Athens, but merely expanded a navy-centred system of public finance that had already existed at least a generation before the general's own time, and had important precursors at least a century earlier. The author reconstructs the scattered evidence for all aspects of public finance, in archaic Greece at large and early Athens in particular, to reveal that a complex machinery of public funding and spending was in place as early as the reforms of Solon in 594 BCE. Public finance was in fact a key factor in the rise of the early Athenian state - long before Themistocles, the empire and democracy.

How long is Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute?

Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute by Hans van Wees is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute aloud.

What Reading Level is Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute?

Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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