Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies - Hardcover

Finley, M. I.

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9780701113506: Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

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ISBN 10: 0701113502 ISBN 13: 9780701113506

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1968

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Sir Moses I. Finley, CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912-June 23, 1986) was an American professor, whose prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge. 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. Finley was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Isaac 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. The Dictionary of National Biography says: "About 1936 he took the surname Finley. He had no second forename, but used the initial 'I'."[1] Finley 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. He then taught at Rutgers University. On September 5, 1951, Dr Karl Wittfogel stated that Finley was a communist while testifying before HUAC. On March 28, 1952, Professor Finley appeared before HUAC and invoked the Fifth Amendment regarding connections to communism. In 1954, Finley appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security (SISS), which asked him whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party USA. He again invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. Finley emigrated to Britain. Here he was appointed university lecturer in classics at Cambridge (1955-64) and, in 1957, elected to a fellowship at Jesus College. ... He was reader in ancient social and economic history (1964-70) and professor of ancient history (1970-79), and from 1976 to 1982 master of Darwin College, Cambridge.[1] source: Wikipedia

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