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UNISA996199065903316 |
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Autore |
Kelly Benjamin |
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Petitions, litigation, and social control in Roman Egypt / / Benjamin Kelly |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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1 online resource (xvii, 427 p.) : ill., maps |
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Oxford studies in ancient documents |
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Disciplina |
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Justice, Administration of (Roman law) |
Actions and defenses (Roman law) |
Social control - Egypt - History - To 1500 |
Egyptian law |
Criminal law - Egypt - History |
Electronic books. |
Arsinoite Nome (Egypt) |
Egypt Social life and customs To 332 B.C |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note 23 on page 252 refers to a Brooklyn papyrus. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-404) and indexes. |
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Introduction -- Petitions and social history -- Legal control in Roman Egypt -- Who used the justice system? -- Political ideologies in the legal realm -- Hierarchy and group solidarity -- Private dispute resolution and the shadow of the law -- Vexatious and vexing litigation -- Conclusions. |
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Through the analysis of legal documents surviving on papyrus such as petitions, reports of court proceedings & letters, this text examines the contribution that petitioning & litigation made to the maintenance of the social order in Roman Egypt between 30 BC & AD 284, & focuses on how the legal system achieved its formal goals. |
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UNINA9910789584003321 |
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Wichler Gerhard |
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Charles Darwin [[electronic resource] ] : the founder of the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection |
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Burlington, : Elsevier Science, 1961 |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Bibliography |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 |
Evolution (Biology) |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front Cover; Charles Darwin: The Founder of the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: The History of the Theory of Evolution; Chapter 1. The Early Period of the Idea of Evolution (approx. 1600-1730) Raleigh, Hale, Leibniz, de Maillet; Chapter 2. Linné (1707-1778) and Buffon (1707-1788); LINNÉ; BUFFON; Chapter 3. In the Period 1770-1805 the Constancy of Species was accepted as a Scientific View. Only the Natural Philosophers Treviranus and Erasmus Darwin advocated The Theory of Evolution |
ERASMUS DARWIN (1731-1802)Chapter 4. The additional Knowledge gained in the Nineteenth Century did not further Ideas on Descent-Cuvier, von Baer; UNITY OF THE PLAN; THE GEOLOGICAL PROGRESSION; CUVIER'S THEORY OF CATASTROPHES; THE BIOGENETIC RULE; Chapter 5. Summary of Arguments for and against the Theory of Evolution; EXPLANATION OF THE TABLE; Chapter 6. Sentimental Reasons against the Theory of Evolution; Chapter 7. The Three Followers of the Theory of Evolution known before 1859: Lamarck, Chambers, Geoffroy St. Hilaire |
LAMARCK, CHAMBERS AND GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE: COMMON ASPECTS OF THEIR IDEASLAMARCK (1744-1829); ROBERT CHAMBERS (1802-1871); ETIENNE GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE (1772-1844); Chapter 8. Further |
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(up to 1859 unknown) Followers of the Theory of Evolution-Schleiden, von Unger, Schaaffhausen, Spencer; 1. THE BOTANIST MATTHIAS SCHLEIDEN (1804-1881); 2. THE BOTANIST AND PALAEONTOLOGIST FRANZ VON UNGER (1800-1870); 3. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST KONRAD SCHAAFFHAUSEN (1816-1893); 4. THE PHILOSOPHER HERBERT SPENCER ( 1820-1903) |
Chapter 9. In the last Decades before 1859 the Hypothesis of Creation of all Species was generally acceptedPART II: The Basis and Development of the Theories of Evolution and Natural Selection; Introduction; Chapter 10. How Darwin arrived at the Theory of Evolution; Chapter 11. Basis of the Theory of Natural Selection; Chapter 12. The History of the Theory of Natural Selection; Chapter 13. Development of the Theories of Evolution and Natural Selection; Evidence that Sufficient Variations Occur in Nature even Today; Evidence of the Harshness of the Struggle for Life of all Animals and Plants |
Solution of the Counter-arguments (Arguments against Descent)Addition of New Evidences to the Known Proofs for Evolution; PART III:; Chapter 14. Darwin Promoted or Established New Branches of Biology; Researches on Domesticated Animals and Cultivated Plants; The Expression of the Emotions; The Problem of Instinct; Darwin: A Modern Animal Psychologist; The Theory of the Causes of Variability; The Distribution of Animals and Plants on Earth; Sexual Selection; The Biology of Flowers; Chapter 15. The Development of the Main Work (the Monograph on Cirripedia-Alfred Russell Wallace) |
Alfred Russell Wallace |
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Charles Darwin: The Founder of the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection provides a comprehensive coverage of the whole spectrum of the theory of evolution. The title presents the historical accounts and conceptual basis that leads to the foundation of the theory of evolution. The text first covers the history of the theory of evolution; the book also details the early form of the theory up to the point of the theories acceptance. Next, the selection discusses the basis and development of theory of evolution. The book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to investigate in great de |
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