Alexander’s Reviews > Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy > Status Update

I think among my favorite things about Wood's histories is her scope of historical vision: haunted by capitalism's pollution of history with its own analytic categories, Wood always strove to provincialize it on the historical continuum. In turn, she brought to life the specificity of all that came before - Rome, the Middle Ages, golden-age Athens. Side-by-side she would place them, and with them, the arc of history.