TY - BOOK ID - 77881172 TI - Commodity & propriety : competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970 PY - 1997 SN - 1299104487 0226013529 9780226013527 0226013537 0226013545 9780226013541 9780226013534 0226013537 0226013545 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Property KW - Civil society KW - Social contract KW - Economics KW - Possession (Law) KW - Things (Law) KW - Wealth KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Social aspects&delete& KW - History KW - E-books KW - United States KW - Property - Social aspects - United States - History. KW - Civil society - United States - History. KW - Primitive property KW - property, rights, america, american, united states, usa, history, historical, legal, litigation, law, lawyer, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 20th century, scholarly, scholarship, analysis, overview, student, college, university, higher ed, textbook, ownership, proprietary, market, economy, wealth, supreme court, case, judge, jury, civic, definition, thomas jefferson, commercial, republican, era, time period, politics, political, debate. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77881172 AB - Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periods-such as the second half of the nineteenth century-when market forces seemed to dominate social and legal relationships. In demonstrating how the understanding of property as a private basis for the public good has competed with the better-known market-oriented conception, Alexander radically rewrites the history of property, with significant implications for current political debates and recent Supreme Court decisions. ER -