The politics of private property contested claims to ownership in U.S. cultural discourse

Agrarian justice : land, labor, and early nineteenth-century property discourse -- "That is property which the law declares to be property" : debating slavery in antebellum America -- A nation of homeowners : the transformation of property in the emerging consumer economy -- Challenging th...

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1. Verfasser: Knewitz, Simone (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Boulder, New York, London Lexington Books 2021
Schriftenreihe:Political theory for today
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Zusammenfassung:Agrarian justice : land, labor, and early nineteenth-century property discourse -- "That is property which the law declares to be property" : debating slavery in antebellum America -- A nation of homeowners : the transformation of property in the emerging consumer economy -- Challenging the "possessive investment in whiteness" : black power and property discourse in the 1960s -- Creating an "ownership society"? The rise of the property rights movement -- Conclusion : contested property claims.
"The Politics of Private Property investigates the functions of private property within U.S. cultural discourse. It mobilizes property as an analytical category and examines how social and political debates from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century have generated competing and contested claims to ownership"--
Beschreibung:Bibliografie Seite 247-272, Index Seite 273-283
Beschreibung:xi, 285 Seiten
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ISBN:9781793623751
978-1-7936-2375-1