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

• Päätekijä: Maurer, Sara L. (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Johns Hopkins University Press 2012
• Aiheet: Literary theory
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...