TY - BOOK ID - 14060519 TI - The great demarcation : the French Revolution and the invention of modern property PY - 2016 SN - 9780199778799 0199778795 0190607149 0190607157 0199778892 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Property KW - Public domain KW - History. KW - France KW - History KW - Domain, Public KW - National domain KW - State domain KW - Law and legislation KW - Revolution (France : 1789-1799) KW - 944.04 KW - 347.23 KW - 34 <09> <44> KW - 34 <09> <44> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--Frankrijk KW - Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--Frankrijk KW - 347.23 Eigendomsrecht KW - Eigendomsrecht KW - 944.04 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Franse revolutie 1789-1804 KW - Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: Franse revolutie 1789-1804 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14060519 AB - The French Revolution remade the system of property-holding that had existed in France before 1789. The revolutionary changes aimed at two fundamental goals: the removal of formal public power from the sphere of property and the excision of property from the realm of sovereignty. The revolutionaries accomplished these two aims by abolishing privately-owned forms of power, such as jurisdictional lordship and venal public office, and by dismantling the Crown domain, thus making the state purely sovereign. This brought about a Great Demarcation: a radical distinction between property and power from which flowed the critical distinctions between the political and the social, state and society, sovereignty and ownership, the public and private. It destroyed the conceptual basis of the Old Regime, laid the foundation of France's new constitutional order, and crystallized modern ways of thinking about polities and societies. ER -