Owning the Earth : the transforming history of land ownership /: the transforming history of land ownership. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andro Linklater.
• Authors: Linklater, Andro
• Contents: 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 private 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.309; History -- Social History; Land tenure -- History; Real property -- Ownership -- History; Natural resources, Communal -- History; Land tenure; Natural resources, Communal; Real property -- Ownership; Bodenrecht; Grundeigentum; History -- Civilization; History; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781408824597; 1408824590
• Related ISBNs: 9781408815748; 1408815745
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.