Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos

Aidan Beatty

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Manchester University Press
21 March 2023

A history of whiteness, masculinity, and the intellectual history of private property from the seventeenth century onwards in the anglophone Atlantic world.

Private property and the fear of social chaos studies what people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and their fears (and sometimes hopes) about living in a future world where private property has disappeared.

This is a close reading of some of the dominant theorists of private property in the Anglophone world

Locke, Burke, Marx and Engels, Harry Truman, Thatcher

as well as more obscure figures like the pro-slavery ideologue George Fitzhugh. Taken as a whole, all of these disparate figures show how modern conceptions of private property always have racial and gendered logics and a fear of the mob operating within them.

By: Aidan Beatty
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781526165701
ISBN 10: 1526165708
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 21 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aidan Beatty teaches at the Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos

'Beatty is rising as an important young historian able to speak to large issues with authority, evidence, and nuance. This book is an elegant and economical study of the social origins of modern liberalism and conservatism and Marxism. It is a highly original work with unexpected but well-connected elements.' David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class -- .