The politics of private property : contested claims to ownership in U.S. cultural discourse / Simone Knewitz.
2021
KF562 .K54 2021 (Mapit)
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Title
The politics of private property : contested claims to ownership in U.S. cultural discourse / Simone Knewitz.
Imprint
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
Description
xi, 283 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Series
Political theory for today.
Formatted Contents Note
Agrarian justice : land, labor, and early nineteenth-century property discourse
"That is property which the law declares to be property" : debating slavery in antebellum America
A nation of homeowners : the transformation of property in the emerging consumer economy
Challenging the "possessive investment in whiteness" : black power and property discourse in the 1960s
Creating an "ownership society"? The rise of the property rights movement
Conclusion : contested property claims.
"That is property which the law declares to be property" : debating slavery in antebellum America
A nation of homeowners : the transformation of property in the emerging consumer economy
Challenging the "possessive investment in whiteness" : black power and property discourse in the 1960s
Creating an "ownership society"? The rise of the property rights movement
Conclusion : contested property claims.
Summary
"The Politics of Private Property investigates the functions of private property within U.S. cultural discourse. It mobilizes property as an analytical category and examines how social and political debates from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century have generated competing and contested claims to ownership"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Knewitz, Simone, 1979- The politics of private property Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Call Number
KF562 .K54 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781793623751 hardcover
1793623759 hardcover
9781793623768 electronic publication
1793623759 hardcover
9781793623768 electronic publication
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