American Property

A History of How, Why, and What We Own

Stuart Banner

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674058057

Publication Date: 03/01/2011

Short

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 halftones

World

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Introduction
1. Lost Property
2. The Rise of Intellectual Property
3. A Bundle of Rights
4. Owning the News
5. People, Not Things
6. Owning Sound
7. Owning Fame
8. From the Tenement to the Condominium
9. The Law of the Land
10. Owning Wavelengths
11. The New Property
12. Owning Life
13. Property Resurgent
14. The End of Property?
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Co-Winner, 2011 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, The Langum Charitable Trust

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