From masters of slaves to lords of lands : the transformation of ownership in the Western world / James Q. Whitman.
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form of ownership. Whitman dives deep into the long Western history of this transformation in the leg...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009497541 |
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