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Owning the earth : the transforming history of land ownership / Andro Linklater.

by Linklater, Andro.

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New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Land tenure -- History.

9781620402894 (hbk.) :

1620402890 (hbk.)

viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

First U.S. edition.

The birth of a revolution -- A new way of owning the earth. The concept -- The rights and politics of owning the earth -- The rights of private property -- The two capitalisms -- The morality of property -- The alternatives to private property. What came before -- The peasants -- Autocratic ownership -- The equilibrium of land ownership -- The society that prive property created. Land becomes mind -- The independence of an owner -- The challenge to private property -- The triumph of individual ownership. The evolution of property -- The empire of land -- The end of serfdom and slavery -- The crisis of capitalism -- The threat to democracy. State capitalism -- The Cold war -- The end of land reform -- Rostow's legacy -- The experiment that failed. The economics of the industrial home -- Undoing the damage -- Feeding the future -- A final trespass.

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