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Owning the Earth : The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater
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- 9781620402894
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1620402890
ISBN-13
9781620402894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160138148
Product Key Features
Book Title
Owning the Earth : the Transforming History of Land Ownership
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Economic History
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
28.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-011970
Reviews
"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, the way it races on makes the reader feel as if transported on a Phileas Foggian adventure through the history of ideas." -- Wall Street Journal "[A] masterly work...[Linklater's] intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range. This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] careful, comprehensive historical study...the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers." -- Booklist "A pertinent, wide-ranging comparative study...vast, evenhanded and worthy of rumination." -- Kirkus, "[A] masterly work...[Linklater's] intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range. This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), "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, the way it races on makes the reader feel as if transported on a Phileas Foggian adventure through the history of ideas." Wall Street Journal "[A] masterly work...[Linklater's] intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range. This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] careful, comprehensive historical study…the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers." Booklist "A pertinent, wide-ranging comparative study...vast, evenhanded and worthy of rumination." -Kirkus, "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, the way it races on makes the reader feel as if transported on a Phileas Foggian adventure through the history of ideas." - Wall Street Journal, "[A] careful, comprehensive historical study...the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers." - Booklist, [A] masterly work...[Linklater's] intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range. This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about., 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, the way it races on makes the reader feel as if transported on a Phileas Foggian adventure through the history of ideas., [A] careful, comprehensive historical study...the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers., "[A] masterly work...[Linklater's] intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range. This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] careful, comprehensive historical study…the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers." Booklist "A pertinent, wide-ranging comparative study...vast, evenhanded and worthy of rumination." -Kirkus
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
333.309
Synopsis
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, evolved very different structures of land ownership and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility. The history and evolution of landownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals-Chinese emperors; German peasants; the seventeenth century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky, whose land redistribution in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea after WWII made possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies- Owning the Earth presents a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet., 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.
LC Classification Number
HD1251.L496 2013
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