This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual

Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American his

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

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