From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands : The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Legal History
ISBN-10
1009497537
ISBN-13
9781009497534
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 16th, 2025
Print length
452 Pages
Weight
784 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideas
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James Q. Whitman offers a new account of the disappearance of lawful slavery, and asks us to reconsider some of our most basic ideas about the nature of property. The book will interest students and scholars of law, the history of slavery, European colonialism and imperialism, and classics.
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, coming to fruition only on the threshold of the modern era. It brought with it profound changes, not only in the way we understand ownership but also in the way we understand the state. Its most dramatic consequence arrived in the nineteenth century, with the final disappearance of the lawful private ownership of humans, which had been taken for granted for thousands of years.
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