| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Law and society |
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Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Despotic Dominion; 1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience; 2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: " Property" in a Kinship-Based Legal Order; 3 Paper Empires: The Legal Dimensions of French and English Ventures in North America; 4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English- Speaking World; 5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity; 6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750- 1920 |
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7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s8 " This Remnant of Feudalism": Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons; 9 " The Lady Vanishes": Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth- Century New South Wales; 10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America, 1870- 1925; 11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Landholding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899- 1999 |
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12 Coexistence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851- 9913 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876- 82; Afterword; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
"This book brings together a variety of perspectives to provide a comprehensive analysis of the important issue of property rights, which continues to animate the body politic of Australia and Canada in particular. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, property theory, indigenous studies, and law, as well as to judges, lawyers, and the inquisitive general reader."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Right of property -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
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Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
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Law -- British colonies
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLaren, John, 1940-
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Buck, A. R.
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Wright, Nancy E.
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| ISBN |
0774851368 |
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9780774851367 |
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9780774810722 |
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0774810726 |
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