Political economy of the american frontier, the
Auteur :
Murtazashvili, Ilia
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107019126
Date de publication :
16 sept. 2013
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
550 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state as a source of private property institutions and how they changed the course of who received a legal title, and for what price, throughout the nineteenth century.