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Constituting modernity : private property in the East and West
This text originated from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing". States are perceived to be fundamental obstacles on the way to an individual's appropriation of the "thing". State intervention is often considered to...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Constituting modernity : private property in the East and West / edited by Huri İslamoğlu |
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London, New York :
I. B. Tauris
, 2004 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XV-335 p.) |
| Collection : | The Islamic Mediterranean ; 5 |
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| Résumé : | This text originated from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing". States are perceived to be fundamental obstacles on the way to an individual's appropriation of the "thing". State intervention is often considered to be a reason for a presumed absence of private property in non-European contexts. The research presented here contests these assumptions from different perspectives, both in a European and non-European context. As multidisciplinary as it is wide-ranging, the work ranges from practices of the 19th-century Otoman administrative government in the constitution of private property rights to the practice of cadastral mapping in British India. These essays, prepared in collaboration as part of a unified research programme, cover Ottoman and British land laws, property rights in the British colonies, and the notion of property as a contested domain and a site of power relations in 19th-century China. |
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| Bibliographie : | Notes bibliogr. Index. |
| ISBN : | 1-86064-996-3 |