{"product_id":"despotic-dominion-9780774810739","title":"Despotic Dominion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 18th century, the English jurist William Blackstone famously described property as that sole and despotic dominion. What Blackstone meant was that property was an absolute right, inherent in every Englishman . . . which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land. In light of the intervening 250 years of colonization, Blackstone's despotic dominion has assumed new and more ambiguous meanings. It is the ambiguity of the meanings of property and the tensions that were and still are evident in property disputes with which this book is concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDespotic Dominion\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the work of scholars whose study of the evolution of property law in the colonies recognizes the value in locating property law and rights within the broader political, economic, and intellectual contexts of those societies. The stimulus for this new interdisciplinary scholarship has emerged\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience \/ \u003cem\u003eJohn McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: “Property” in a Kinship-based Legal Order \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard Overstall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Paper Empires: The Legal Basis of French and English Ventures in North America \/ \u003cem\u003eBrian Slattery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English-speaking World \/ \u003cem\u003eJohn C. Weaver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity \/ \u003cem\u003eBruce Ziff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750-1920 \/ \u003cem\u003ePhilip Girard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s \/ \u003cem\u003eRusty Bitterman and Margaret McCallum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 “This Remnant of Feudalism”: Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons \/ \u003cem\u003eA.R. Buck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 “The Lady Vanishes”: Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales \/ \u003cem\u003eNancy E. Wright\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America: 1870-1925 \/ \u003cem\u003eAlvin J. Esau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Land Holding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1999 \/ \u003cem\u003eJohn McLaren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851-99 \/ \u003cem\u003eRobert Foster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-82 \/ \u003cem\u003eDouglas Harris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword \/ \u003cem\u003eJohn McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404910305623,"sku":"9780774810739","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774810739.jpg?v=1730488023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/despotic-dominion-9780774810739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}