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Rule of Laws : A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Pirie (2021, Hardcover)
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What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-101541617940
ISBN-139781541617940
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050388774
Product Key Features
Book TitleRule of Laws : a 4000-Year Quest to Order the World
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Legal History
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreLaw, Social Science, History
AuthorFernanda Pirie
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight29.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-942287
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews" The Rule of Laws offers a pathbreaking and stimulating account of how societies across different regions and epochs drew upon secular, sacred, and scholarly traditions to create laws that organized the lives of their citizens. Fernanda Pirie leads readers across five millennia to show diverse and sophisticated legal systems developed in states across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, before explaining how the European-derived legal structures of our time achieved a rather unlikely and historically anomalous global dominance. This expansive narrative challenges what we think we know about legal history and the assumptions we make about law's future."-- Edward J. Watts, author of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, " The Rule of Laws is a fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters. Far from being a dry set of rules, Fernanda Pirie argues, law is nothing less than a way of creating order and civilization. For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading."-- Rana Mitter, University of Oxford, " The Rule of Laws offers a pathbreaking and stimulating account of how societies across different regions and epochs drew upon secular, sacred, and scholarly traditions to create laws that organized the lives of their citizens. Pirie leads readers across five millennia to show the diverse and sophisticated legal systems developed in states across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas before explaining how the European-derived legal structures of our time achieved a rather unlikely and historically anomalous global dominance. This expansive narrative challenges what we think we know about legal history and the assumptions we make about law's future."-- Edward J. Watts, author of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
SynopsisFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order.But laws were not simplyinstrumentsof power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diversevisions for a better world. In The Rule of Laws , Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirietracesthe rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showinghow common people--tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers--called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world's laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, isour very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.
LC Classification NumberK150.P57 2021
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