Early Modern Conceptions of Property

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John Brewer, Susan Staves
Routledge, Jan 14, 2014 - History - 632 pages

Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations.

 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
Part I Property and political theory
19
Part II Property and legal ideology
93
Part III Property and the family
159
Part IV Property and the construction of a self
219
Part V Literary property
321
the invention and institution of special forms of property
411
Part VII The property of empire
495
INDEX
585
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