1 edition of Owning the earth found in the catalog.
Owning the earth
Andro Linklater
Published
2013
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466) and index.
| Other titles | Transforming history of land ownership, History of land ownership |
| Statement | Andro Linklater |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HD1251 .L496 2013 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | viii, 482 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates |
| Number of Pages | 482 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL26917521M |
| ISBN 10 | 1620402890 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781620402894 |
| LC Control Number | 2013011970 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 827256839 |
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About Owning the Earth. From the author of the acclaimed Measuring America, a dazzling chronicle, through history and across cultures, about how the ability to own the land we inhabit has shaped modern society.
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. 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.
About Owning the Earth 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 the most creative and Owning the earth book destructive cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. In this masterly work, Linklater (Measuring America) views modern history through the lens of land ownership, considering a variety of modes that includes private ownership, ownership by the state or.
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The dilemma of liberty and ownership takes center stage in polymath Andro Linklater's exhilarating Owning the Earth [It] is a magnificent achievement, a fascinating survey of what it has meant at various times to own or take possession of land, and of how landowning has shaped the way we perceive the world and our place in it There is something almost boyish about the execution and energy of this book Brand: Bloomsbury USA.
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[Andro Linklater] -- 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.
