Private property and the fear of social chaos

Aidan Beatty

Published by Manchester University Press 2023

Private property and the fear of social chaos

Aidan Beatty

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526165718

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What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book.

Author / Editor information

Aidan Beatty teaches at the Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh

Reviews

'Beatty is rising as an important young historian able to speak to large issues with authority, evidence, and nuance. This book is an elegant and economical study of the social origins of modern liberalism and conservatism and Marxism. It is a highly original work with unexpected but well-connected elements.'
David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Theories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
1 The invention of a new world Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 The poet of real property Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
3 The Moor’s laboratory Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
II Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
4 The failure of free society Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
5 Privatised utopias Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
6 The Iron Lady’s imaginary childhood Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Epilogue Interplanetary settler-colonialism Aidan Beatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

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Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
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- Other: 1 b&w illustration
Keywords: Atlantic World; Cultural History; Edmund Burke; Enclosures; Intellectual History; John Locke; Karl Marx; Private Property; Silicon Valley; Thatcherism; Whiteness

eBook

Published: March 14, 2023
ISBN: 9781526165718