ISBN: 9780571350094
Title: PROPERTY : The myth that built the world
Author: MOORE ROWAN
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE
\"A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't.Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's \"\"property-owning democracy.\"\" Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.\"
Imprint: Faber and Faber
RRP: $34.99
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Dimensions | 216 × 135 mm |
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