The Dispossessed State : Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sar...
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