Hakutulokset: property and society
yhteensä 169 hakutulosta
The Idea of Home in Law
The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing …
Law and Recovery From Disaster: Hurricane Katrina
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, directly affecting 1.5 million people. Only one year earlier, an Indian Ocean tsunami struck …
The Public Nature of Private Property
What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The …
Property and Sovereignty
This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual meaning of …
Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict
Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement. …
Intellectual Property Law and History
Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings …
Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914
Historians have often employed the concept of civil society, an intermediary realm between the family and the state, to analyse nineteenth-century Europe and North America. They …
Essays On The Origin Of Society, Language, Property, Government, Jurisdiction, Contracts And Marriage: Interspersed With Illustrations From The Greek And Galic Languages
Women and Property in China, 960-1949
Previous scholarship has presented a static picture of property inheritance in China, mainly because it has focused primarily on men, whose rights changed little throughout the …