Despotic dominion [[electronic resource] ] : property rights in British settler societies / / edited by John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright
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| Titolo: |
Despotic dominion [[electronic resource] ] : property rights in British settler societies / / edited by John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright
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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 346.04 |
| Soggetto topico: | Right of property - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
| Law - Great Britain - Colonies - History | |
| Altri autori: |
McLarenJohn <1940->
BuckA. R
WrightNancy E
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Despotic Dominion; 1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience; 2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: " Property" in a Kinship-Based Legal Order; 3 Paper Empires: The Legal Dimensions of French and English Ventures in North America; 4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English- Speaking World; 5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity; 6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750- 1920 |
| 7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s8 " This Remnant of Feudalism": Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons; 9 " The Lady Vanishes": Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth- Century New South Wales; 10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America, 1870- 1925; 11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Landholding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899- 1999 | |
| 12 Coexistence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851- 9913 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876- 82; Afterword; Contributors; Index | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Despotic dominion |
| ISBN: | 0-7748-5136-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817583203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)