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Despotic dominion : property rights in British settler societies / edited by John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right of property--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Right of property.
- Law--Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brings together the work of scholars whose study of the evolution of property law in the colonies recognizes the value in locating property law and rights within the broader political, economic, and intellectual contexts of those societies.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Despotic Dominion; 1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience; 2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: " Property" in a Kinship-Based Legal Order; 3 Paper Empires: The Legal Dimensions of French and English Ventures in North America; 4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English- Speaking World; 5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity; 6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750- 1920
- 7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s8 " This Remnant of Feudalism": Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons; 9 " The Lady Vanishes": Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth- Century New South Wales; 10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America, 1870- 1925; 11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Landholding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899- 1999
- 12 Coexistence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851- 9913 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876- 82; Afterword; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-5136-8
- OCLC:
- 842287469
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