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The Rule of Laws
- A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
- De: Fernanda Pirie
- Narrado por: Ana Clements
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people - tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers - called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, not sure if the best excecution
- De Daniel Rendon en 03-08-22
- The Rule of Laws
- A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
- De: Fernanda Pirie
- Narrado por: Ana Clements
Great idea, not sure if the best excecution
Revisado: 03-08-22
Summary:
-The book focuses on describing the history of the different legal systems that have existed and compares them: from Mesopotamia, China and India to the laws of international organizations that govern today.
-The book is divided into three parts or periods of time
-The origin of the first attempts to codify systems of laws and the differences between them
-A comparison between slightly more systematized codes after the fall of Rome
-Finally the product of European expansion, the integration of other regional systems to this, the decentralization of power and the current legal systems
What I liked:
-A focus beyond just Europe (I love to understand other possible realities beyond the one in which I was educated)
-The number and diversity of examples (from Tibet to Iceland)
-The relationship of laws with other systems (religion, politics, economy and finance)
What I didn't like:
-Too descriptive, could benefit from a comparative analysis or the conclusions of the big picture, the famous so what's
-Something repetitive and in some cases too specific for a text that summarizes the entire history of a field of knowledge
-There is a lack of a systematic description of the different components of the law
Recommendation:
-Honestly...hardly enough to recommend it
-Within its benefits, the book leaves much to be desired, sometimes it can be boring and it feels somewhat textbookish
-I recommend it to those who have an intermediate level of world history, otherwise the amount of detail you get can be overwhelming. Like drinking water from a fire hose.
-I would recommend it because apart from legal history you learn a lot about religion, economics and history in general,.. that's always a win
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,602
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,826
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,815
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
- Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
fantastic
Revisado: 09-15-20
great for understanding our world, it's history and how we could break the wheel of history
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