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Commodity & propriety : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 /
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press,
1999, 1997.
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| Edición: | [Pbk. ed., 1999]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE-- THE CIVIC REPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1776-1800: Prologue-- Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era
- Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property
- Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision
- Descent and Dissent from the Civic Meaning of Property
- PART TWO-- THE COMMERCIAL REPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1800-1860: Prologue-- Legal Writing in the Commercial Republican Era
- "Liberality" vs. "Technicality": Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age
- James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce
- Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws
- Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era
- Commodifying Humans: Property in the Antebellum Legal Discourse of Slavery
- PART THREE-- THE INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 1870-1917: Prologue-- Legal Writing in the Age of Enterprise
- The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power and Democracy
- The Dilemma of Property in the Private Sphere: Alienability and Paternalism
- PART FOUR-- THE LATE MODERN CULTURE, 1917-1970: Prologue Legal Writing in the Twentieth Century--The Demise of Legal Autonomy
- Socializing Property: The Influence of Progressive-Realist Legal Thought
- Property in the Welfare State: Postwar Legal Thought, 1945-1970
- EPILOGUE