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  • Introduction

  • Anna di Robilant, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Making of Modern Property
    Published online:
    13 July 2023
    Print publication:
    27 July 2023, pp 1-38

  • Summary

    The Introduction lays out the context, the motives, and the main features of the reinvention of Roman property in nineteenth-century Europe. It introduces the global professional network of elite liberal jurists who embarked in this ambitious project and explores the reasons of their attraction to Roman propert and their committment to changing ideas of modernization. Further the introduction examines the conceptual structre of modern dominium.

  • Afterword: Genre Queries, African Studies

  • Moradewun Adejunmobi
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / April 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 July 2017, pp. 258-264

  • This essay on genres acknowledges the constructed nature of the fluid classifications that form around recognized and recognizable types of creative work. Some systems of classification owe their recognition to powerful cultural intermediaries. Others, often located in the realm of popular culture, emerge without input from cultural intermediaries. As constructed groupings of works, genres matter for their ability to generate distinct circuits of transmission that allow for a specific type of encounter with the work and a type of response to the work.