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Author Johnstone, Steven, 1959-

Title A history of trust in ancient Greece / Steven Johnstone
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages)
Contents Haggling -- Measuring -- Keeping track -- Valuing -- Collaborating -- Apportioning liability -- Deciding -- Common Greek weights and measures
Summary Focusing on markets and democratic politics, this text draws on speeches given in Athenian courts, histories of Athenian democracy, comic writings, and laws inscribed in stone to examine how the concept of trust was woven into the life of Ancient Greece
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed April 10, 2015)
Subject Trust -- Greece -- History
Trust -- Economic aspects -- Greece
Trust -- Political aspects -- Greece
Democracy -- Greece
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Civilization
Democracy
Economic history
Trust
Trust -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057059
Subject Greece
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226405117
0226405117