CONSTITUTING MODERNITY by Huri Islamoglu (Editor) ( 9781860649967 )

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Title:

CONSTITUTING MODERNITY
PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE EAST AND WEST

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ISBN 10:

1860649963

ISBN 13:

9781860649967

Publisher:

I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD.

Pub. date:

26 March, 2004

Series:

Islamic Mediterranean v. 5

Pages:

288

Description:

Arising from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing", with state intervention being responsible for an absence of private property in non-European contexts, this study contests these assumptions in a European and non-European context.

Synopsis:

This text originated from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing". States are perceived to be fundamental obstacles on the way to an individual's appropriation of the "thing". State intervention is often considered to be a reason for a presumed absence of private property in non-European contexts. The research presented here contests these assumptions from different perspectives, both in a European and non-European context. As multidisciplinary as it is wide-ranging, the work ranges from practices of the 19th-century Otoman administrative government in the constitution of private property rights to the practice of cadastral mapping in British India. These essays, prepared in collaboration as part of a unified research programme, cover Ottoman and British land laws, property rights in the British colonies, and the notion of property as a contested domain and a site of power relations in 19th-century China.

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I.B.Tauris

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Non-returnable

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