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Autore |
Alexander Gregory S. <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Commodity & propriety [[electronic resource] ] : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 / / Gregory S. Alexander |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-10448-7 |
0-226-01352-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (500 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Property - Social aspects - United States - History |
Property - United States - History |
Civil society - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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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 (p. 387-470) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE CIVIC REPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1776-1800 -- PART TWO: THE COMMERCIAL RLEPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1800-1860 -- PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 1870-1917 -- PART FOUR: THE LATE MODERN CULTURE 1917-1970 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- lndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 dominate social and legal relationships. In demonstrating how the understanding of property as a private basis for the public good has competed with the better-known market-oriented conception, Alexander radically rewrites the history of property, with significant implications for current political |
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