Title & Author:

Early modern conceptions of property / edited by John Brewer and Susan Staves.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Description:

xiv, 599 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Consumption and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / John Brewer and Susan Staves -- 2. Resources, capacities, and ownership. The workmanship ideal and distributive justice / Ian Shapiro -- 3. Lockean ideas, poverty, and the development of liberal political theory / Richard Ashcraft -- 4. The "misteries" of property. Relationality, rural-industrialization, and community in Chartist narratives of political rights / Margaret R. Somers -- 5. Paradoxical property / Robert W. Gordon -- 6. Land law, citizenship, and the invention of "Englishness." The strange world of the equity of redemption / David Sugarman and Ronnie Warrington -- 7. Property, commerce, and the common law. Attitudes to legal change in the eighteenth century / David Lieberman -- 8. Of women and the land. Legitimizing husbandry / Carol Blum -- 9. Women and property in ancien regime France. Theory and practice in Dauphine and Paris / Barbara B. Diefendorf.

Summary:

Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history, and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations. The articles address classic issues of property theory: how can private ownership of natural resources be justified? Is it possible to reconcile the rights of property owners backed by state power and the rights of the propertyless to life and liberty? Ought the state to limit or deny ownership rights in certain things, such as slaves, babies, animals? What constraints, if any, should be placed on the power to transmit assets through inheritance?
These crucial debates now have renewed urgency and relevance as in the United States and western Europe state constraints on private ownership are being newly challenged from the political right, and as eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union move toward market economies. Early Modern Conceptions of Property concentrates these issues in an exciting international collection.

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ISBN:

0415105331
9780415105330

Subject:

Property History.
Propriété Histoire.
Property
Eigentum
Geschichte
Theorie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Brewer, John, 1947-
Staves, Susan, 1942-
Consumption and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117468
Call No.: ID HB701.E14; ID:96-B3263
Status: Available