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Overview: 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 Analys

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Author

Linklater, Andro, author

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620402894

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Management

Rating

3.87 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14