Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos
Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues
Alternative uses of land and re-negotiation of property rights : Scandinavian examples, 1750-2000 / Mats Morell
Institutional innovations and economic development in Lombardy, eighteenth-twentieth centuries / Andrea M. Locatelli and Paolo Tedeschi
The shift to "modern" and its consequences : changes in property rights and land wealth inequality in Buenos Aires, 1839-1914 / Julio Djenderedjian and Daniel Santilli
Taming the platypus : adaptations of the colonia tenancy contract to a changing context in nineteenth-century Madeira / Benedita Câmara and Rui Santos
Demythologizing and de-idealizing the commons : Ostrom's eight design principles and the irrigation institutions in eastern Spain / Samuel Garrido
Hopes of recovery : struggles over the right to common lands in the Spanish countryside, 1931-1936 / Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and José-Miguel Lana
Hurdles to reunification : cultural memories and control over property in post-socialist rural East Germany / Joyce E. Bromley and Axel Wolz
Property rights in land : institutions, social appropriations, and socioeconomic outcomes / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos
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