Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
viii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-466) and index. |
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 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 -- Epilogue. |
Subject |
Land tenure -- History.
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ISBN |
9781620402894 alkaline paper |
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1620402890 alkaline paper |
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