Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Introduction
The Romanist-Bourgeois Property Culture: Dominium, the Social Function, and Resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The Introduction lays out the context, the motives, and the main features of the reinvention of Roman property in nineteenth-century Europe. It introduces the global professional network of elite liberal jurists who embarked in this ambitious project and explores the reasons of their attraction to Roman propert and their committment to changing ideas of modernization. Further the introduction examines the conceptual structre of modern dominium.
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- The Making of Modern PropertyReinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950, pp. 1 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023