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

By: Linklater, Andro [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2013Edition: First U.S. edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: viii, 482 p. : ill., plates, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781620402894 (alk. paper); 1620402890 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Land tenure -- HistoryDDC classification: 333.309
Contents:
Introduction: 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 alternative 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 private property -- The challenge to private property -- The triumph of individual ownership -- The evolution of property -- The empire of property -- 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 -- Epilogue.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 333.3 L648 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003488061

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 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 alternative 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 private property -- The challenge to private property -- The triumph of individual ownership -- The evolution of property -- The empire of property -- 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 -- Epilogue.

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