The making of modern property : reinventing Roman law in Europe and its peripheries 1789-1950 / Anna Di Robilant.

"Anna di Robilant traces the history of the appropriation of Roman property law by liberal nineteenth-century jurists to fit the purposes of modern Europe. Di Robilant outlines how a broad network of European jurists reinvented the classical Roman concept of property to support the process of m...

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Main Author: Di Robilant, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer : a Scientific Method and a Vast Inventory of Property Concepts
  • The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property : Robert Joseph Pothier and the Transition from Medieval "Divided Dominium" to Modern Absolute Dominium
  • Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property : Roman Antiquity, Political Reaction, a Rising Bourgeoisie, and Scientism
  • Reform, Not Revolution : Modernizing Property in Germany
  • The Tensions of Absolute Property
  • Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America : Property, Nationhood, Race, and Economic Development
  • The Social Critics : the Critique of Absolute Dominium and the Retrieval of the Roman Social Doctrines.