Property Rights in Land

<p><em>Property Rights in Land</em> widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development. </p><p>As neo-institutional development theory has become a narrative in global history and political economy, the problem of promoting global development has arisen from creating the conditions for ‘good’ institutions to take root in the global economy and in developing societies. Written by a collection of expert authors, the chapters delve into social processes through which property relations became institutionalized and were used in social action for the appropriation of resources and rent. This was in order to gain a better understanding of the social processes intervening between the institutionalized ‘rules of the game’ and their economic and social outcomes. </p><p>This collection of essays is of great interest to those who study economic history, historical sociology and economic sociology, as well as Agrarian and rural history. </p> <p>Introduction <i>Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos</i></p><p>Chapter 1: Migration and Accommodation of Property Rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, Sixteenth – Nineteenth Centuries <i>José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues</i></p><p>Chapter 2: Alternative Uses of Land and Re-Negotiation of Property Rights: Scandinavian Examples, 1750–2000 <i>Mats Morell</i></p><p>Chapter 3: Institutional Innovations and Economic Development in Lombardy, Eighteenth – Twentieth Centuries<i> Andrea M. Locatelli and Paolo Tedeschi</i></p><p>Chapter 4: The Shift to ‘Modern’ and Its Consequences: Changes in Property Rights and Land Wealth Inequality in Buenos Aires, 1839–1914 <i>Julio Djenderedjian and Daniel Santilli</i></p><p>Chapter 5: Taming the Platypus: Adaptations of the Colonia Tenancy Contract to a Changing Context in Nineteenth-Century Madeira <i>Benedita Câmara and Rui Santos</i></p><p>Chapter 6: Demythologizing and De-Idealizing the Commons: Ostrom’s Eight Design Principles and the Irrigation Institutions in Eastern Spain <i>Samuel Garrido</i></p><p>Chapter 7:<i> </i>Hopes of Recovery: Struggles Over the Right to Common Lands in the Spanish Countryside, 1931–1936 <i>Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and José-Miguel Lana</i></p><p>Chapter 8: Hurdles to Reunification: Cultural Memories and Control over Property in Post-Socialist Rural East Germany <i>Joyce E. Bromley and Axel Wolz</i></p><p>Chapter 9: Property Rights in Land: Institutions, Social Appropriations, and Socioeconomic Outcomes<i> Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos</i></p>