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From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics
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From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens Hardcover - 1986

by Ostwald, Martin

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Burnt orange cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; burnt orange dj with white lettering; xxii, 663 pp. Contents include: pt. 1. The growth of popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty and the control of government -- Popular sovereignty and social thought -- Popular sovereignty and the control of religion.; pt. 2. Opposition to popular sovereignty. The prelude -- The poplarizations of the 420s -- Popular sovereignty and the intellectual : Alcibiades; pt. 3. Toward the sovereignty of law. The problem of the Patrios Politeia (ancestral constitution) -- The breakdown of popular sovereignty -- The second oligarchical challenge and its failure -- Toward a new order : democracy under the law.
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  • Title From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
  • Author Ostwald, Martin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear t
  • Pages 500
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1986
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 184888
  • ISBN 9780520054264 / 0520054261
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Democracy, Athens (Greece) - Politics and government
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85000690
  • Dewey Decimal Code 344.951

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Since time immemorial the political leadership of Attica had been in the hands of men whose claim to social prominence rested on a combination of landed wealth with membership in old and distinguished families and clans.

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Martin Ostwald is W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Autonomia: Its Genesis and Early History (1982).

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