The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Synopsis

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world &“An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.&” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered &“land reform&” policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974. The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

600 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780300264869

Related ISBNs:

9780300256680

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date of Addition:

05/03/22

Copyrighted By:

Jo Guldi.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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