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Demonstrates why claim clubs are perhaps the most important explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions during an important period in Ame

Brings together economic, social, and political analyses to formulate a program for an American revival, in terms of the nation's economy and of a more equitabl

In the American West, trappers, miners, and farmers often preceded the formal institutions of government and therefore had to invent their own institutional fra

This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its sc

The Great Frontier presents a new theory of the history of the Western World since 1492 when Columbus opened the frontier lands to a static European society.