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New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. Bottom corner of front cover creased. 2015 Trade Paperback. viii, 482 pp. 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. Spreading from both shores of the north Atlantic, it laid waste to traditional communal civilizations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, but at the same time brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. By contrast, as Linklater demonstrates, other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world,…
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- Title Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership
- Author Andro Linklater
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury USA
- Date 2015-05
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781620402917 / 1620402912
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects History, Land tenure
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.3
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