LEADER 03578nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910779535403321 005 20230725061441.0 010 $a0-674-06082-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674060821 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039423 035 $a(EBL)3301274 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000859974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000859974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10895329 035 $a(PQKB)10504616 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301274 035 $a(DE-B1597)178172 035 $a(OCoLC)804897538 035 $a(OCoLC)840437099 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678705 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039423 100 $a20100917d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican property$b[electronic resource] $ea history of how, why, and what we own /$fStuart Banner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-05805-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLost property -- The rise of intellectual property -- A bundle of rights -- Owning the news -- People, not things -- Owning sound -- Owning fame -- From the tenement to the condominium -- The law of the land -- Owning wavelengths -- The new property -- Owning life -- Property resurgent -- The end of property?. 330 $aIn America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation's proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property?The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law?Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires.Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire. 606 $aProperty$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRight of property$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aProperty$xHistory. 615 0$aRight of property$xHistory. 676 $a330.1/7 686 $aPU 5350$2rvk 700 $aBanner$b Stuart$f1963-$0281269 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779535403321 996 $aAmerican property$93670787 997 $aUNINA