Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: The Civic Republican Culture, 1776-1800 Prologue: Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era 1: Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property 2: Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision 3: Descent and Dissent from the Civic Meaning of Property Pt. 2: The Commercial Republican Culture, 1800-1860 Prologue: Legal Writing in the Commercial Republican Era 4: Liberality vs. Technicality: Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age 5: James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce 6: Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws 7: Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era 8: Commodifying Humans: Property in the Antebellum Legal Discourse of Slavery Pt. 3: The Industrial Culture, 1870-1917 Prologue: Legal Writing in the Age of Enterprise 9: The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power and Democracy 10: The Dilemma of Property in the Private Sphere: Alienability and Paternalism Pt. 4: The Late Modern Culture, 1917-1970 Prologue: Legal Writing in the Twentieth Century - The Demise of Legal Autonomy 11: Socializing Property: The Influence of Progressive-Realist Legal Thought 12: Property in the Welfare State: Postwar Legal Thought, 1945-1970 Epilogue Notes Index

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