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Finding fairness : from Pleistocene foragers to contemporary capitalists / Justin Jennings.
Van Pelt Library BJ1533.F2 J46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jennings, Justin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairness--Social aspects--History.
- Fairness.
- Social justice--History.
- Social justice.
- Fairness--Political aspects--History.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Providing a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Fair Is Fair
- 2. Evolving and Sustaining Fairness
- 3. Becoming Human
- 4. Settling Down
- 5. Village and Pastoral Life
- 6. Urbanization and the State
- 7. Empires and the Other
- 8. Equality, Nation-States, and Global Capitalism
- 9. Finding Fairness in a Changing World.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jennings, Justin. Finding fairness
- ISBN:
- 9780813066745
- 0813066743
- OCLC:
- 1155332472
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