From masters of slaves to lords of lands : the transformation of ownership in the Western world
James Q. Whitman
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Omfang | ix, 440 sider
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "James Q. Whitman offers a new account of the disappearance of lawful slavery, and asks us to reconsider some of our most basic ideas about the nature of property. The book will interest students and scholars of law, the history of slavery, European colonialism and imperialism, and classics"--
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| ISBN | 9781009497534. - 9781009497565
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