TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitman, James Q.
TI  - From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
T2  - Studies in Legal History
SN  - 9781009497541
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009497541
ER  -