From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
Whitman, James Q.
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World James Q. Whitman - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024 - 442 Seiten - Studies in Legal History .
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Introduction: owning humans, owning land, two primitive modes of the property imagination; Part I. Masters of Men and Beasts: 1. Hierarchy and the hunt for prey: the anthropology of early human ownership; 2. Masters of men and beasts: the early Roman fantasia of ownership; 3. The dominus enters the law; 4. Classical Roman slave law: the just hunt for human prey; 5. An empire of the chieftainship over people; Part II. From Masters to Lords: 6. Introduction to Part II: from Pierson v. Post to Johnson v. M'Intosh; 7. From slavery to feudalism: the great hypothesis; 8. From masters to lords in late antiquity; 9. 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; Bibliography; Index.
9781009497541
9781009497541 978-1-009-49754-1
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World James Q. Whitman - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024 - 442 Seiten - Studies in Legal History .
E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal
Introduction: owning humans, owning land, two primitive modes of the property imagination; Part I. Masters of Men and Beasts: 1. Hierarchy and the hunt for prey: the anthropology of early human ownership; 2. Masters of men and beasts: the early Roman fantasia of ownership; 3. The dominus enters the law; 4. Classical Roman slave law: the just hunt for human prey; 5. An empire of the chieftainship over people; Part II. From Masters to Lords: 6. Introduction to Part II: from Pierson v. Post to Johnson v. M'Intosh; 7. From slavery to feudalism: the great hypothesis; 8. From masters to lords in late antiquity; 9. 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; Bibliography; Index.
9781009497541
9781009497541 978-1-009-49754-1