Owning the Earth : the transforming history of land ownership /: the transforming history of land ownership. (2014)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Owning the Earth : the transforming history of land ownership /: the transforming history of land ownership. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Owning the Earth : the transforming history of land ownership
- 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.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.80999
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- 01_001.xml