Commodity & Propriety

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1: The Civic Republican Culture, 1776-1800
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Civic Republican Era
1: Thomas Jefferson and the Civic Conception of Property
2: Time, History, and Property in the Republican Vision
3: Descent and Dissent from the Civic Meaning of Property
Pt. 2: The Commercial Republican Culture, 1800-1860
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Commercial Republican Era
4: "Liberality" vs. "Technicality": Statutory Revision of Land Law in the Jacksonian Age
5: James Kent and the Ambivalent Romance of Commerce
6: Antebellum Statutory Law Reform Revisited: The Married Women's Property Laws
7: Ambiguous Entrepreneurialism: The Rise and Fall of Vested Rights in the Antebellum Era
8: Commodifying Humans: Property in the Antebellum Legal Discourse of Slavery
Pt. 3: The Industrial Culture, 1870-1917
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Age of Enterprise
9: The Dilemma of Property in Public Law during the Age of Enterprise: Power and Democracy
10: The Dilemma of Property in the Private Sphere: Alienability and Paternalism
Pt. 4: The Late Modern Culture, 1917-1970
Prologue: Legal Writing in the Twentieth Century - The Demise of Legal Autonomy
11: Socializing Property: The Influence of Progressive-Realist Legal Thought
12: Property in the Welfare State: Postwar Legal Thought, 1945-1970
Epilogue
Notes
Index