Early modern conceptions of property / edited by John Brewer and Susan Staves.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt.1. Property and political theory. Resources, capacities, and ownership. The workmanship ideal and distributive justice / Ian Shapiro -- Lockean ideas, poverty, and the development of liberal political theory / Richard Ashcraft -- The "misteries" of property. Relationality, rural-industrialization, and community in chartist narratives of political rights / Margaret R. Somers. Pt.2. Property and legal ideology. Paradoxical property / Robert W. Gordon -- Land law, citizenship, and the invention of "Englishness." The strange world of the equity of redemption / David Sugarman and Ronnie Warrington -- Property, commerce, and the common law. Attitudes to legal change in the eighteenth century / David Lieberman. Pt.3. Property and the family. Of women and the land. Legitimizing husbandry / Carol Blum -- Women and property in ancien regime France. Theory and practice in Dauphine and Paris / Darbara B. Diefendorf -- Resentment or resignation? Dividing the spoils among daughters and younger sons / Susan Staves. Pt.4. Property and the construction of a self. Property and politeness in the early eighteenth-century Whig moralists. The case of the spectator / Lawrence E. Klein --

(cont)Rewrighting Shaftesbury. The air pump and the limits of commercial humanism / David Solkin -- Property, politics, and personality in Rousseau / Patrick Coleman -- Noblesse oblige. Female charity in an age of sentiment / Donna T. Andrew -- Defending conduct and property. The London press and the luxury debate / James Raven. Pt.5. Literary property. Writing lear. Literary property and dramatic authorship / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Epistolary property. Michel de Servan and the plight of letters on the eve of the French Revolution / Dena Goodman -- The bank, the press and the "return of nature." On currency, credit, and literary property in the 1690's / J.S. Peters -- Literary capital. Gray's "Elegy," Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and the vernacular canon / John Guillory. Pt.6. Reification: the invention and institution of special forms of property. Possessing mother nature. Genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain / Harriet Ritvo --

(cont) Parliament and property rights in the late eighteenth-century British Empire / P.J. Marshall -- Coerced indigenous labor and free mestizo peasantry. A property-rights, rent-seeking view of colonial Paraguay / Mario Pastore -- The concept of "white slavery" in the English Caribbean during the early seventeenth century / Hilary Beckles.

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