{"product_id":"from-masters-of-slaves-to-lords-of-lands-the-transformation-of-ownership-in-the-western-world-hardback-9781009497534","title":"From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands; The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World (Hardback) 9781009497534","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Transformation of Ownership in the Western World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA compelling reconsideration of our most basic ideas about the nature of property.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Q. Whitman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009497534, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e452 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.3 x 3 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Whitman dazzlingly sets out the power of the legal imagination in producing and embedding historical change across the longue durée. He unpeels the palimpsest of property law in this dizzyingly intellectual book. The scholarship is immense, and the implications profound.' Hannah Skoda, Fellow and Tutor in History, St John's College, Oxford\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eToday we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form of ownership. Whitman dives deep into the long Western history of this transformation in the legal imagination – the transformation from the ownership of humans and other living creatures to the ownership of land. This change extended over many centuries, coming to fruition only on the threshold of the modern era. It brought with it profound changes, not only in the way we understand ownership but also in the way we understand the state. Its most dramatic consequence arrived in the nineteenth century, with the final disappearance of the lawful private ownership of humans, which had been taken for granted for thousands of years.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: owning humans, owning land, two primitive modes of the property imagination\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Masters of Men and Beasts: 1. Hierarchy and the hunt for prey: the anthropology of early human ownership\u003cbr\u003e 2. Masters of men and beasts: the early Roman fantasia of ownership\u003cbr\u003e 3. The dominus enters the law\u003cbr\u003e 4. Classical Roman slave law: the just hunt for human prey\u003cbr\u003e 5. An empire of the chieftainship over people\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From Masters to Lords: 6. Introduction to Part II: from Pierson v. Post to Johnson v. M'Intosh\u003cbr\u003e 7. From slavery to feudalism: the great hypothesis\u003cbr\u003e 8. From masters to lords in late antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 9. From the law of owning humans to the law of owning land: the early modern culmination\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: from man the killer to man the tiller\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460695912728,"sku":"9781009497534","price":29.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009497534i.jpg?v=1785458712","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-masters-of-slaves-to-lords-of-lands-the-transformation-of-ownership-in-the-western-world-hardback-9781009497534","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}