Social justice in the ancient world / edited by K.D. Irani and Morris Silver
- Bib ID:
- 2343839
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995
- viii, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0313291446 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- Series:
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- Contributions in political science ; no. 354.
- Contributions in political science. Global perspectives in history and politics
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World / K. D. Irani
- 2. Social Justice and the Subsistence Economy: From Aristotle to Seventeenth-Century Economics / S. Todd Lowry
- 3. The Origins of a Concept of Social Justice / Howard L. Adelson
- 4. KHREMATA: Acquisition and Possession in Archaic Greece / Thomas J. Figueira
- 5. Images of Justice in Early Greek Poetry / Gregory Nagy
- 6. Justice and the Metaphor of Medicine in Early Greek Thought / Marshall S. Hurwitz
- 7. Social Justice in Ancient Iran / Farhang Mehr
- 8. Social Justice in Ancient India: In Arthasastra / M. G. Prasad
- 9. The Ideological Basis for Social Justice/Responsibility in Ancient Egypt / Scott N. Morschauser
- 10. Social Justice in Early Islamic Society / Fereydoun Hoveyda
- 11. The Idea of Social Justice in Ancient China / Thomas H. C. Lee
- 12. Social Justice in the Ancient Near East / Raymond Westbrook
- 13. Social Reform in Ancient Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster.
- 14. Prophets and Markets Revisited / Morris Silver
- 15. Demands for Land Redistribution and Debt Reduction in the Roman Republic / Richard E. Mitchell.
- Notes:
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- "This volume resulted from a Conference on Social Justice in the Ancient World held at the City College of the City University of New York on March 10, 11, and 13. All the papers read at the conference are published here, with the exceptions ... "--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]) and index.
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