Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or ch

Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the bas

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the dev

This book examines the foundations of the system for owning and taxing agricultural land in the United States. It considers the conditions of land policy at sev