Book
Despotic dominion : property rights in British settler societies
Record details
- ISBN: 9780774810722
- ISBN: 0774810726
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Physical Description:
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viii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Property rights in the colonial imagination and experience / John McLaren, A. R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright -- 2. Encountering the spirit in the land : "property" in a kinship-based legal order / Richard Overstall -- 3. Paper empires : the legal dimensions of French and English ventures in North America / Brian Slattery -- 4. Concepts of economic improvement and the social construction of property rights : highlights from the English-speaking world / John C. Weaver -- 5. Warm reception in a cold climate : English property law and the suppression of the Canadian legal identity / Bruce Ziff -- 6. Land law, liberalism, and the agrarian ideal : British North America, 1750-1920 / Philip Girard -- 7. When private rights become public wrongs : property and the state in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s / Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum -- 8. "This remnant of feudalism" : primogeniture and political culture in colonial New South Wales, with some Canadian comparisons / A. R. Buck -- 9. "The lady vanishes" : women and property rights in nineteenth-century New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright -- 10. The establishment and preservation of Hutterite communalism in North America, 1870-1925 / Alvin J. Esau -- 11. The failed experiments : the demise of Doukhobor systems of communal property landholding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1999 / John McLaren -- 12. Coexistence and colonization on pastoral leaseholds in South Australia, 1851-99 / Robert Foster -- 13. Indian reserves, aboriginal fisheries, and the public right to fish in British Columbia, 1876-82 / Douglas Harris -- Afterword / John McLaren, A. R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright. |
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| Subject: | Right of property -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History Right of property -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | K 721.5 D47 2004 (Text)
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