Acknowledgments

1 Property Rights in the Colonial Imagination and Experience / John McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright

2 Encountering the Spirit in the Land: “Property” in a Kinship-based Legal Order / Richard Overstall

3 Paper Empires: The Legal Basis of French and English Ventures in North America / Brian Slattery

4 Concepts of Economic Improvement and the Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English-speaking World / John C. Weaver

5 Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity / Bruce Ziff

6 Land Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750-1920 / Philip Girard

7 When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s / Rusty Bitterman and Margaret McCallum

8 “This Remnant of Feudalism”: Primogeniture and Political Culture in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons / A.R. Buck

9 “The Lady Vanishes”: Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright

10 The Establishment and Preservation of Hutterite Communalism in North America: 1870-1925 / Alvin J. Esau

11 The Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Land Holding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1999 / John McLaren

12 Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia, 1851-99 / Robert Foster

13 Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-82 / Douglas Harris

Afterword / John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright

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