1st Edition

Early Modern Conceptions of Property

Edited By John Brewer, Susan Staves Copyright 1994
    632 Pages
    by Routledge

    632 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction Property and Political Theory Property and Legal Ideology Property and the Family Property and the Construction of a Self Literary Property Reification: The Invention and Institution of Special Forms of Property The Property of Empire

    Biography

    John Brewer, Susan Staves

    'These essays successfully illustrate the multiplicity of property claims in the early modern period.' - The Times

    'This is an excellent idea for a book; one of those ideas you are amazed has not happened before.' - Bulletin Vol 22 , No 2 Autumn 1997