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1 online resource (500 pages) |
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Commodity & Propriety; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Civic Republican Culture,1776-1800; Prologue: Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era; 1 Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property; 2 Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision; 3 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; 4 "Liberality" vs. "Technicality": Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age; 5 James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce |
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6 Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws7 Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era; 8 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; 9 The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power an |
| Summary |
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 the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periods?such as the second half of the nineteenth century?when market forces seemed to domi |
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Print version record |
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Property -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Property -- United States -- History
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Civil society -- United States -- History
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Civil society
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Property
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Property -- Social aspects
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226013527 |
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0226013529 |
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