History Forum - Professor Sumner La Croix

January 25, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Sakamaki A201 (History Dept. Library)

This co-authored talk compares public land disposal and the emergence of property-rights on the frontier in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the British colony of New South Wales, Australia.

Rather than the common theory of the emergence of such rights as one from de facto to de jure, evolving from the growing demands of settlers, the authors suggest the importance of the political supply side, or the actions of govern- ments. The governments differed in their policies as a result of the costs of enforcement, threats of violence, and other public matters. Contrasts developed between Argentina and Australia as a result of this political supply side.

The paper was co-authored by Prof. La Croix and Prof. Alan Dye, Barnard College, Columbia University.


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Free and open to the public

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History, Mānoa Campus

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Prof. Peter Hoffenberg, 956-8486, peterh@hawaii.edu

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