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Commodity & propriety [[electronic resource] ] : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 / / Gregory S. Alexander



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Autore: Alexander Gregory S. <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Commodity & propriety [[electronic resource] ] : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 / / Gregory S. Alexander Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997
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
Soggetto non controllato: property, rights, america, american, united states, usa, history, historical, legal, litigation, law, lawyer, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century, scholarly, scholarship, analysis, overview, student, college, university, higher ed, textbook, ownership, proprietary, market, economy, wealth, supreme court, case, judge, jury, civic, definition, thomas jefferson, commercial, republican, era, time period, politics, political, debate
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Commodity & propriety  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-10448-7
0-226-01352-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778716003321
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