Property Rights in Land: Issues in social, economic and global history

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth–nineteenth centuries 2 Alternative uses of land and re-negotiation of property rights: Scandinavian examples, 1750–2000 3 Innovation in property rights and economic development in Lombardy, eighteenth–twentieth centuries 4 The shift to ‘modern’ and its consequences: Changes in property rights and land wealth inequality in Buenos Aires, 1839–1914 5 Taming the platypus: Adaptations of the colonia tenancy contract to a changing context in nineteenth-century Madeira 6 Demythologizing and de-idealizing the commons: Ostrom’s eight design principles and the irrigation institutions in eastern Spain 7 Hopes of recovery: Struggles over the right to common lands in the Spanish countryside, 1931–1936 8 Hurdles to reunifcation: Cultural memories and control over property in post-socialist rural East Germany 9 Property rights in land: Institutions, social appropriations, and socio-economic outcomes Index