Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

by Andro Linklater

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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 as a result of the most creative - and, at the same time, destructive - cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land.

This notion laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a...Read more
  • ISBN10 1408824590
  • ISBN13 9781408824597
  • Publish Date 16 January 2014 (first published 12 November 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC