Property and Freedom

Name: Property and Freedom
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ISBN: 9780375704475

ISBN-10: 0375704477

ISBN-13: 9780375704475

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Authors: Richard Pipes

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Richard Pipes, Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution, brings his remarkable erudition to an exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic institutions to evolve and thrive in the Western world. Beginning with Greece and Rome, where the concept of private property as we understand it first developed, Pipes then shows us how, in the late medieval period, the idea matured with the expansion of commerce and the rise of cities. He contrasts England, a country where property rights and parliamentary government advanced…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Richard Pipes, Baird Research Professor of History at Harvard University, is the author of numerous books and essays. In 1981-82 he served as President Reagan's National Security Council adviser on Soviet and East European affairs. He has twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chesham, New Hampshire.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Definitions



The Idea of Property



The Institution of Property



England and the Birth of Parliamentary Democracy



Patrimonial Russia



Property in the Twentieth Century


Portents


References


Index