From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World

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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 legal imagination - the transformation from the ownership of humans and other living creatures to the ownership of land. This change extended over many centuries,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1009497537

ISBN13:9781009497534

Release Date:March 2025

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:462 Pages

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