The Dispossessed State Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

• Main Author: Maurer, Sara L. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2012
• Subjects: Literary theory
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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...