Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos

Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos
Aidan Beatty
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 344pg
17 Jan 2023 UK
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9781526165701
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A study of whiteness, masculinity, and the intellectual history of private property from the seventeenth century onwards in the anglophone Atlantic world. Private property and the fear of social chaos investigates what people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and their fears (and sometimes hopes) about living in a future world where private property has disappeared. This is a close reading of some of the dominant theorists of private property in the Anglophone world - Locke, Burke, Marx and Engels, Harry Truman, Thatcher - as well as more obscure figures like the pro-slavery ideologue George Fitzhugh. Taken as a whole, all of these disparate figures show how modern conceptions of private property always have racial and gendered logics and a fear of the mob operating within them.
' 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 -- .
Aidan Beatty teaches at the Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526165701
Published: 17 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 344

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