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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794696003321

Autore

Jennings Justin

Titolo

Finding fairness : from pleistocene foragers to contemporary capitalists / / Justin Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-8130-5772-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

179.9

Soggetti

Fairness - Social aspects - History

Social justice - History

Fairness - Political aspects - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fair is Fair -- Evolving and Sustaining Fairness -- Becoming Human -- Settling Down -- Village and Pastoral Life -- Urbanization and the State -- Empires and the Other -- Equality, Nation-States, and Global Capitalism -- Finding Fairness in a Changing World

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--