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The Political Economy of the American Frontier

The Political Economy of the American Frontier

Murtazashvili, Ilia

Paperback

Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Real EstateGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1107514770
ISBN13: 9781107514775
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 28 2016
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law, and history. 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. Unlike existing analytical studies of the frontier that emphasize one or two sectors, this book considers all major sectors, as well as the relationship between informal and formal property institutions, while also proposing a novel theory of emergence and change in property institutions that provides a framework to interpret the complicated history of land laws in the United States.

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