Making private property: Enclosure, common right and the work of hedges

Rural History

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Blomley, Nicholas ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIVATE LAND; PRIVATIZATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOCIAL WORK; SYMBOLISM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250322641     PISSN: 09567933     EISSN: 14740656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956793306001993     Document Type: Article

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