Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership, by Andro Linklater
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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 by the most creative and simultaneously 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, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government. 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 this concept is a fascinating chapter 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. Owning the Earth presents a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet and the history behind it.
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership, by Andro Linklater- Amazon Sales Rank: #342800 in Books
- Brand: Linklater, Andro
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.31" w x 5.56" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 496 pages
From Booklist In this careful, comprehensive historical study, Linklater (Measuring America, 2002) reviews centuries of expansion and settlement to explore how the ownership of land has negatively affected society. From the sixteenth-century assertions of British rights to survey and collect rent in St. John’s, Newfoundland (wryly characterized as “absurd” by the author); to more prosaic discussions of fences and mapping; and up to a bracing review of Che Guevara’s fight for land redistribution, Owning the Earth casts a wide net over the subject of property. Linklater discusses politics, agriculture, colonialism, slavery, democracy, communism, and even intellectual property. His geographic view is wide, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Russia, China, and the Middle East. Linklater’s shifting narrative can, on occasion, be dizzying or dense, but the subject matter is so important and his dedication so thorough that this singular work should be welcomed by all readers interested in land-use history and future global concerns. --Colleen Mondor
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“[A] masterly work . . . His intellectual range is as wide as his geographic or temporal range . . . This reinterpretation of global history will give readers of history, politics, and economics much to think about.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“[Linklater] has the talent not just to let us know how things work, but to make us want to know . . . A magical mystery tour that leaves the reader both mildly footsore and exhilarated by unexpected connections.” ―Richard Eder, The New York Times on Measuring America
“Remarkable . . . Linklater traces with unusual elegance and a keen wit the epic story of measuring our nation, charting the process by which, with each length of the surveyor's chain, new states were literally bought into being.” ―Margaret Wertheim, Los Angeles Times Book Review on Measuring America
“A wonderful and fascinating new book . . clever and a hugely satisfying read. It deserves to be a classic.” ―Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe on Measuring America
“What's great about history, when well done, is how even the most familiar topics can be revisited again . . . to offer a fresh perspective. That's what Andro Linklater does in Measuring America.” ―Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today on Measuring America
“Linklater gives us a different perspective than we usually get when reading about how the U.S. developed. The frontier experience took place not only in wide open spaces, but within the borders of the United States. How that happened is an important story and Linklater tells it splendidly.” ―Bookpage on The Fabric of America
“Mr. Linklater offers readers a whirlwind tour through the corridors of Westminster, the rat-infested prisons of St. Petersburg, the slave-funded mansions of Liverpool. He captures the fevered state of English politics and society during the Napoleonic era.” ―The Wall Street Journal on Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
About the Author Andro Linklater was the acclaimed author of Measuring America, The Fabric of America, An Artist in Treason, and Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die. He died in 2013.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Superb and subtly presented analysis of the various forms of ... By Joe S. Kersey Superb and subtly presented analysis of the various forms of land tenure over the centuries and how they developed ranging from tribal customs to the formally titled and deeded fee-simple/freehold tenure we have in the US and the UK.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. No history book is perfect.. By Patrick J. Drohan Linklater presents an incredibly complex history of land ownership in a very well presented book. No history book is perfect....everyone will find some aspect they may disagree with or interpret differently. This is the type of book though that is great about including those anecdotal pieces of information that really drive home the story. I am using this book to teach a University course on the co-evolution of land and people through time and it provides outstanding discussion material. I highly recommend the read for its thought-provoking material.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful. An important if flawed analysis by Andro Linklater By Edward Dodson As someone who lectures on economic history and political economy, I find Andro Linklater's book to provide a provocative perspective on the reasons why some societies prosper while other do not. His main thesis is that the privatization of the planet has causes both progress and poverty. Efficiency in production (particularly agricultural production) occurs with privatization, but in the process social relationships are destroyed. Secondarily, he demonstrates by examples throughout history and our contemporary experience that societies can develop a private property based economy without movement to democracy.I have prepared paper reviewing the book in detail and presenting my own perspectives on where the author's analysis fails in his exploration into the history of how nature came to be treated as private property and how we could solve the problems created thereby. The paper is available in the online library of the School of Cooperative Individualism:http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dodson-edward_review-of-andro-linklater-owning-the-earth-2014.html
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