Commodity & propriety : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 / / Gregory S. Alexander
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Alexander Gregory S. <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Commodity & propriety : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 / / Gregory S. Alexander
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1999th ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (500 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.1/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Property - Social aspects - United States - History |
| Property - United States - History | |
| Civil society - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-470) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 debates and recent Supreme Court decisions. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Commodity and propriety |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Commodity & propriety |
| ISBN: | 1-299-10448-7 |
| 0-226-01352-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825931603321 |
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