Early Modern Conceptions of Property.

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Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations.  Read more... Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents LIST OF TABLES LIST OF PLATES PREFACE NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 1 Introduction Part I Property and political theory 2 Resources, capacities, and ownership. The workmanship ideal and distributive justice 3 Lockean ideas, poverty, and the development of liberal political theory 4 The ""misteries"" of property. Relationality, rural-industrialization, and community in Chartist narratives of political rights Part II Property and legal ideology 5 Paradoxical property. 6 Land law, citizenship, and the invention of ""Englishness."" The strange world of the equity of redemption7 Property, commerce, and the common law. Attitudes to legal change in the eighteenth century Part III Property and the family 8 Of women and the land. Legitimizing husbandry 9 Women and property in ancien régime France. Theory and practice in Dauphiné and Paris 10 Resentment or resignation? Dividing the spoils among daughters and younger sons Part IV Property and the construction of a self. 11 Property and politeness in the early eighteenth-century Whig moralists. The case of the Spectator12 ReWrighting Shaftesbury. The Air Pump and the limits of commercial humanism 13 Property, politics, and personality in Rousseau 14 Noblesse oblige. Female charity in an age of sentiment 15 Defending conduct and property. The London press and the luxury debate Part V Literary property 16 (Re)Writing Lear. Literary property and dramatic authorship 17 Epistolary property. Michel de Servan and the plight of letters on the eve of the French Revolution. 18 The bank, the press and the ""return of Nature."" On currency, credit, and literary property in the 1690s19 Literary capital. Gray's ""Elegy, "" Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and the vernacular canon Part VI Reification: the invention and institution of special forms of property 20 Possessing Mother Nature. Genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain 21 Monopoly, economic thought, and the Royal African Company 22 Delivering the goods. Patriotism, property, and the midwife mission of Mme de Coudray 23 Property in office under the ancien régime. The case of the stockbrokers. Part VII The property of empire24 Property and propriety. Land tenure and slave property in the creation of a British West Indian plantocracy, 1612-1740 25 Parliament and property rights in the late eighteenth-century British Empire 26 Coerced indigenous labor and free mestizo peasantry. A property-rights, rent-seeking view of colonial Paraguay 27 The concept of ""white slavery"" in the English Caribbean during the early seventeenth century INDEX.