Whitman, James Q. <br/><br/>
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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<br/><br/> 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. 
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