The Political Economy of the American Frontier |
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Author:
| Murtazashvili, Ilia |
Series title: | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-139-09409-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Digital download and online |
List Price: | USD $165.00 |
Book Description:
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This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state as a source of private property institutions and how they changed the course of who received a legal title, and for what price, throughout the nineteenth century.
This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state as a source of private property institutions and how they changed the course of who received a legal title, and for what price, throughout the nineteenth century.