Just property [electronic resource] . Volume 1, Wealth, virtue, and the law : a history in the Latin west / Christopher Pierson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierson, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Political science--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Cover; Contents; Standardized Latin Abbreviations; Introduction; 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 Diggers10. Locke; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 4, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-165418-3

OCLC:

922972467