From masters of slaves to lords of lands : the transformation of ownership in the Western world / James Q. Whitman.
2025
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Title
From masters of slaves to lords of lands : the transformation of ownership in the Western world / James Q. Whitman.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 440 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Studies in legal history.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Owning Humans, Owning Land : Two Primitive Modes of the Property Imagination
Hierarchy and the Hunt for Prey : The Anthropology of Early Human Ownership
Masters of Men and Beasts : The Early Roman Fantasia of Ownership
The Dominus Enters the Law
Classical Roman Slave Law : The Just Hunt for Human Prey
An Empire of the Chieftainship over People
From Slavery to Feudalism : The Great Hypothesis
From Masters to Lords in Late Antiquity
From the Law of Owning Humans to the Law of Owning Land : The Early Modern Culmination
Conclusion : From Man the Killer to Man the Tiller.
Hierarchy and the Hunt for Prey : The Anthropology of Early Human Ownership
Masters of Men and Beasts : The Early Roman Fantasia of Ownership
The Dominus Enters the Law
Classical Roman Slave Law : The Just Hunt for Human Prey
An Empire of the Chieftainship over People
From Slavery to Feudalism : The Great Hypothesis
From Masters to Lords in Late Antiquity
From the Law of Owning Humans to the Law of Owning Land : The Early Modern Culmination
Conclusion : From Man the Killer to Man the Tiller.
Summary
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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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781009497541 (ebook)
9781009497534 (hardback)
9781009497565 (paperback)
9781009497534 (hardback)
9781009497565 (paperback)
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