Description:Chapters: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject. He was educated at Syracuse University and Columbia University. Although his M.A. was in public law, most of his published work was in the field of ancient history, especially the social and economic aspects of the classical world. He taught at Columbia University and City College of New York, where he was influenced by members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, during the Red Scare, Finley was fired from his teaching job at Rutgers University; in 1954, he was summoned by the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party USA. He invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. Unable subsequently to find work in the United States, Finley moved to England in 1955, where he taught classical studies for many years at Cambridge University, first as a Reader in Ancient Social and Economic History at Jesus College (19641970), then as Professor of Ancient History (19701979) and eventually as Master of Darwin College (19761982). He broadened the scope of classical studies from philology to culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and a Fellow of the British Academ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=215875We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen. To get started finding Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen
Description: Chapters: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject. He was educated at Syracuse University and Columbia University. Although his M.A. was in public law, most of his published work was in the field of ancient history, especially the social and economic aspects of the classical world. He taught at Columbia University and City College of New York, where he was influenced by members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, during the Red Scare, Finley was fired from his teaching job at Rutgers University; in 1954, he was summoned by the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party USA. He invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. Unable subsequently to find work in the United States, Finley moved to England in 1955, where he taught classical studies for many years at Cambridge University, first as a Reader in Ancient Social and Economic History at Jesus College (19641970), then as Professor of Ancient History (19701979) and eventually as Master of Darwin College (19761982). He broadened the scope of classical studies from philology to culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and a Fellow of the British Academ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=215875We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen. To get started finding Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge: Moses I. Finley, G. E. R. Lloyd, William Arthur Brown, Frank George Young, Arnold Burgen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.