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Author Linklater, Andro, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2013.

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  333.309 LIN    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  333.309 LINKLATER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  333.309 LIN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.309 LINKLATER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  333.309 LIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.309 L64    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  333.309 LINKLATER    Check Shelf
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.
ISBN 9781620402894 alkaline paper
1620402890 alkaline paper
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