The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property

by Rafe Blaufarb

Book Overview

What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contingencies, and unexpected results, this process laid the foundations of the Napoleonic Code and modern notions of property.

As Rafe Blaufarb demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190056525
• ISBN13: 9780190056520
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"