Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience / John McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright

2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: "Property" in a Kinship-based Legal Order / Richard Overstall

3 Paper Empires: The Legal Basis of French and English Ventures in North America / Brian Slattery

4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English-speaking World / John C. Weaver

5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity / Bruce Ziff

6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750-1920 / Philip Girard

7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s / Rusty Bitterman and Margaret McCallum

8 "This Remnant of Feudalism": Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons / A.R. Buck

9 "The Lady Vanishes": Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright

10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America: 1870-1925 / Alvin J. Esau

11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Land Holding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1999 / John McLaren

12 Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851-99 / Robert Foster

13 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-82 / Douglas Harris

Afterword / John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright

Index

Promotional Information

This is a book for lawyer lovers of history. Lawyers interested in property law, its evolution, the litigation, aboriginal title and political response with find this book of interest. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac The Barrister

About the Author

John McLaren is Lansdowne Professor of Law at the University of Victoria. A.R. Buck is Senior Lecturer in Law and Editor of the Australian Journal of Legal History at Macquarie University. Nancy E. Wright is Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Property Rights at the University of Newcastle.