Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

by Andro Linklater

Book Overview

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history by, Andro Linklater persuasively argues, the most creative and at the same time destructive cultural force in the modern era-the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620402890
• ISBN13: 9781620402894
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"