03460nam 2200721Ia 450 991082593160332120200520144314.01-299-10448-70-226-01352-910.7208/9780226013527(CKB)111004366537918(EBL)408214(OCoLC)808772284(SSID)ssj0000125538(PQKBManifestationID)12002878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125538(PQKBWorkID)10026821(PQKB)11431229(SSID)ssj0000375797(PQKBManifestationID)11234227(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375797(PQKBWorkID)10341428(PQKB)11745941(MiAaPQ)EBC408214(DE-B1597)523741(OCoLC)1055283998(DE-B1597)9780226013527(Au-PeEL)EBL408214(CaPaEBR)ebr10230030(CaONFJC)MIL441698(EXLCZ)9911100436653791819970416d1997 ub 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrCommodity & propriety competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 /Gregory S. Alexander1999th ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press19971 online resource (500 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-01353-7 0-226-01354-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-470) and index.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 --lndexMost 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 debates and recent Supreme Court decisions.Commodity and proprietyPropertySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPropertyUnited StatesHistoryCivil societyUnited StatesHistoryPropertySocial aspectsHistory.PropertyHistory.Civil societyHistory.330.1/7Alexander Gregory S.1948-1598939MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825931603321Commodity & propriety4104147UNINA