The Importance of Property Law in the Capitalist World System

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Possession of land was and remains the ultimate objective of colonial power. Property law is the primary means of realizing this desire. The control over land is in a way the most basic and fundamental beginning of colonial rule. And so we can think about this right from the late 15th century with Spanish and Portuguese colonialism.

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