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Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought Book

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  • Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought
  • Written by author Gregory S. Alexander
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, February 1998
  • Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a comp
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Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Pt. 1The Civic Republican Culture, 1776-1800
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era21
1Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property26
2Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision43
3Descent and Dissent from the Civic Meaning of Property72
Pt. 2The Commercial Republican Culture, 1800-1860
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Commercial Republican Era91
4"Liberality" vs. "Technicality": Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age97
5James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce127
6Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws158
7Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era185
8Commodifying Humans: Property in the Antebellum Legal Discourse of Slavery211
Pt. 3The Industrial Culture, 1870-1917
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Age of Enterprise243
9The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power and Democracy248
10The Dilemma of Property in the Private Sphere: Alienability and Paternalism277
Pt. 4The Late Modern Culture, 1917-1970
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Twentieth Century - The Demise of Legal Autonomy305
11Socializing Property: The Influence of Progressive-Realist Legal Thought311
12Property in the Welfare State: Postwar Legal Thought, 1945-1970352
Epilogue379
Notes387
Index471


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