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The War Against the Commons : Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism by Ian Angus; Ian Angus is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The War Against the Commons : Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism about?
A unique historical account of poor peoples’ self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of their lands and labor For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults known as enclosures or clearances, shared common land became privately-owned capital, and peasant farmers became propertyless laborers who could only survive by working for the own
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ian Angus; Ian Angus
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781685900182
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Political Science, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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