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1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) |
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Contributions in political science, 0147-1066 ; no. 354. Global perspectives in history and politics |
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Contributions in political science ; no. 354.
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Contributions in political science. Global perspectives in history and politics.
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The idea of social justice in the ancient world / K.D. Irani -- Social justice and the subsistence economy : from Aristotle to seventeenth-century economics / S. Todd Lowry -- The origins of a concept of social justice / Howard L. Adelson -- KHREMATA : acquisition and possession in archaic Greece / Thomas J. Figueira -- Images of justice in early Greek poetry / Gregory Nagy -- Justice and the metaphor of medicine in early Greek thought / Marshall S. Hurwitz -- Social justice in ancient Iran / Farhang Mehr -- Social justice in ancient India : in Arthaśāstra / M.G. Prasad -- The ideological basis for social justice/responsibility in ancient Egypt / Scott N. Morschauser -- Social justice in early Islamic society / Fereydoun Hoveyda -- The idea of social justice in ancient China / Thomas H.C. Lee -- Social justice in the ancient Near East / Raymond Westbrook -- Social reform in ancient Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster -- Prophets and markets revisited / Morris Silver -- Demands for land redistribution and debt reduction in the Roman Republic / Richard E. Mitchell |
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Justice History |
| Notes |
"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 ..."--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 215) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Social justice -- History -- Congresses
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Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Civilization, Ancient
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Social justice
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Historia antiga -- grecia (sociedade)
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Social justice -- History -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Ancient -- Congresses.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Irani, K. D.
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Silver, Morris.
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Conference on Social Justice in the Ancient World (1993 : City University of New York)
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| LC no. |
94030932 |
| ISBN |
9780313031113 |
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0313031118 |
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