Property rights and their violations. La propriété violée

Informationen zum Autor Luigi Lorenzetti is coordinator of the Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Mendrisio). His researches focus on the history of the family and the history of rural societies, as well as the property and land markets in the alpine area. He recently published Destini periferici. Modernizzazione, risorse e mercati in Ticino, Valtellina e Vallese, 1850-1930 (Udine 2010). Michela Barbot holds a «Research Based University Chair of Excellence» in Social and Economic History at the CNRS Research Unit 8533 «Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie» at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). Member of the editorial board of «Quaderni Storici», her research focuses on social and economic history of wealth, value and property in Europe in the long run (16th-20th centuries). Luca Mocarelli is professor of economic history at the Faculty of Economics in Milano-Bicocca University. He has worked extensively on urban and regional economy, with special regard to early modern Lombardy and to manufactures, guilds and the building sector. Among his recent works: Costruire la città. Edilizia e vita economica nella Milano del secondo Settecento (Bologna, 2009). Luigi Lorenzetti est le coordinateur du Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi de l'Università della Svizzera italiana (Mendrisio). Ses domaines de recherche portent sur l'histoire de la famille et des sociétés rurales ainsi que sur la propriété et les marchés fonciers de l'arc alpin. Il a récemment publié l'ouvrage Destini periferici. Modernizzazione, risorse e mercati in Ticino, Valtellina e Vallese, 1850-1930 (Udine 2010). Historienne de l'économie et de la société, Michela Barbot est titulaire d'une « Research Based University Chair of Excellence » auprès de l'Unité Mixte de Recherche du CNRS « Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie » à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). Membre du comité de rédaction de la revue « Quaderni Storici », elle travaille sur l'histoire économique et sociale de la richesse, de la valeur et de la propriété en Europe dans la longue durée (XVIe-XXe siècles). Luca Mocarelli est professeur d'histoire économique à la Faculté des sciences économiques, Université de Milano-Bicocca. Il a travaillé sur l'économie de la Lombardie durant l'époque moderne, notamment sur les activités manufacturières, les corporations et l'industrie du bâtiment. Parmi ses publications, on mentionne l'ouvrage de 2009 : Costruire la città. Edilizia e vita economica nella Milano del secondo Settecento (Bologna 2009). Klappentext Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the rise of private and individual ownership as it was codified in 19th-century liberal Europe. In writing this history, however, their perspective has too often ignored the other side of the coin, namely the restrictions which the sovereign imposed on such rights, allegedly in the interest of the community. The papers collected in the present volume suggest that private property is not necessarily the most safeguarded legal model, hence it is not less vulnerable to violation. They construct a close analysis of the most common forms of abuse of private property on record - expropriation, seizure, and confiscation - perpetrated by public authorities. They also seek to define the uneasy, often intricate relation between legal and legitimate. In a perspective of lights and shadows, the role of confiscation and expropriation changes : now seen as powerful instruments of change, now as enduring factors of conservation in the evolution of private ownership rights. Les droits de propriété sont depuis longtemps au coeur de l'intérêt de diverses disciplines. L'attention des historiens s'est focalisée surtout sur la naissance de la propriété privée et...