American property : a history of how, why, and what we own /
From Publishers Weekly: In this tightly written book, Banner, a professor of law at UCLA, tackles an admittedly expansive topic, illustrating that our ideas about what property is, how it is regulated, and what it is meant to do are in constant flux and have been historically contested. Partly an...
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Cambridge, Mass :
Harvard University Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1: Lost property
- 2: Rise of intellectual property
- 3: 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: Law of the land
- 10: Owning wavelengths
- 11: New property
- 12: Owning life
- 13: Property resurgent
- 14: End of property?
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index