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UNINA9910450230203321 |
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Titolo |
Despotic dominion [[electronic resource] ] : property rights in British settler societies / / edited by John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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McLarenJohn <1940-> |
BuckA. R |
WrightNancy E |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Right of property - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Law - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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 |
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