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Cargando... American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own (2011)por Stuart Banner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Overview of property in America from the colonial period to today (that is, property derived from English law; though Banner’s written on native issues in the past, his focus here is the settlers’ and then United States’ law). I learned the most from the early sections on property in political offices and various obligations to churches, a nice reminder that property disappears as well as being created. Banner’s treatment of slavery is far less extended, presumably because he thinks that everyone understands that some people were property and then weren’t. There’s a lot about intellectual property (right of publicity, copyright, etc.) and telecommunications-related property rights. The basic argument is that property is never just about economic value but also about social value: things become property when we see them as legitimate subjects of property, and become not-property when that legitimacy disappears. I’m not sure who the audience is, but it was a pleasant enough read. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation's proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property?The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law?Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires.Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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