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"Winner of the 1993 Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993" Edward E. Cohen is Chairman of the Executive Committee at JeffBanks, Inc., a bank-holding company based in Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University and is author of Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts (Princeton).
In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen...
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Edward Cohen is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Resource America, Inc., a specialty-finance company based in Philadelphia. He is the author of Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts and Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective, both published by Princeton University Press.
Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political...