Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over..

2000. Buoye, Thomas M. Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth Century China. Cambridge, [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, [2000]. xvi, 283 pp. Softcover. Fine. Library stamp to verso front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. $30. * Contents: Economic change, social conflict, and property rights; "Population increases daily": economic change during the eighteenth century; "As before each manage their own property": boundary and water-rights disputes; "Crafty and obdurate tenants": redemption, rent defaults, and evictions; Temporal and geographic distributions of property right disputes in Guangdong; Violence North, West, and South: property right disputes in Shandong, Sichuan, and Guangdong; "You will be rich but not benevolent": changing concepts of legitimacy and violent disputes.