Author Description

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 -- Index.