The Double Life of Property

Mobilizing Land and Making Capitalism in Modern France

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13085544
AutoresAlexia Yates (0000-0002-0743-0658, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen6
Número2
Páginas247-278
Fecha de publicación2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/705369
OpenAlexW2972659960
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas40

Nineteenth-century France was host to a vigorous public debate on how real property—land and buildings—should function in the marketplace. Proponents of what was called the mobilization of land sought to enhance the circulation of real property, whereas its opponents aimed to prevent the dissipation of durable patrimonies in the unreliable world of commerce and finance. This article analyzes the articulation of the mobilization question by jurists, politicians, and political economists in early nineteenth-century France and argues for its importance—and the centrality of real property relations—to understanding the imaginative and institutional construction of modern capitalism. Focusing on contentious innovations in the financial life of real property of the 1789 and 1848 revolutions, it reconstructs the repetitive character of mobilization programs and argues that this mimetic quality stems from a persistent and enduring misapprehension regarding nature and the material as sources of economic value

Articulation (sociology · Capitalism · Economics · Market economy · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private property · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Real property · Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law