Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities)

by Brenna Bhandar (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $115.95

  Brenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies, showing how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as legal narratives that equated civilized life with English concepts of property.