Just property / Christopher Pierson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierson, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Property--Philosophy.

Property.

Property--Europe--History.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Volume 1 has subtitle: History in the Latin West

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013-2016.

Summary:

Vol. 1. This text traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from.

Contents:

Volume one. Wealth, virtue and the law. 1: The Greeks: property and the common good 2: The Romans: private property and personhood 3: The Early Christian Church: property and sinfulness 4: The Medieval World: Roman laws, natural laws, and God's law 5: The Late Medieval World: princes, popes and supreme poverty 6: The Early Sixteenth Century: renaissance and reformation 7: The Later Sixteenth Century: absolutism and resistance 8: Natural Law and Natural Right in the Seventeenth Century: Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf 9: Seventeenth-Century Radicals: republicans, levellers and diggers 10: Locke

volume two. Enlightenment, revolution, and history. 1: The Scottish enlightenment 2: The French enlightenment 3: The German enlightenment

and beyond 4: The French revolution

and its aftermath 5: Socialism 6: Anarchism.

Notes:

Volume 2: First edition, impression 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199673285

0199673284

9780199673292

0199673292

OCLC:

870530707