Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1850)

Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Ph.D. (2012), is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on the legal and institutional history of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. He currently leads the IberLAND project, funded by the European Research Council.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Beyond Private and CommonOwnership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1800)Manuel Bastias Saavedra2 The Rights of Things and the Obligations of the OwnerExploring the Deep Normative Grammars of the Early Modern Ownership RegimeAlessandro Buono3 Guests in Foreign LandsLand Control and Ownership in Greater Senegambia in the Face of the Portuguese Presence (16th and 17th Centuries)Thiago Henrique Mota4 A Widow’s TaleShifting Land Regimes and the Interplay of Household and Community in Colonial PeruJosé Carlos de la Puente Luna5 Ownership and Seigniorial RelationshipsLand and Territory in Colonial Tlaxiaco (the Mixteca, Mexico)Marta Martín Gabaldón6 Domestic Rights in Indigenous Communal Lands and the Expression “Menester” during the Execution of the 1591 Royal Decrees in Charcas, Viceroyalty of PeruCarolina Jurado7 Concordias, Sentencias Arbitrales, and VistasOwnership and Possession of Grassland in the Valleys of Ansó and Hecho (17th–19th Centuries)Íñigo Ena Sanjuán8 Amparos and MapasCommunal Land Possession and Dispossession in the Late Colonial AndesAlcira Dueñas9 Sobas, Ilamba, and ResidentsOn the Diverse Meanings of Land in Angola’s Hinterland in the 18th centuryCrislayne Gloss Marão Alfagali10 Epilogue: The Necessary De-Westernisation of the Models of Land OwnershipReflections on the Idea of Feudal Remnants in Core Western CountriesRosa CongostIndex