Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
Contributor(s): Albertus, Michael (Author)Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541604814Physical Info: 1.5" H x 9.3" L x 6.0" W (1.2 lbs) 336 pages
Michael Albertus is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. The author of four previous books, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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" Land Power is an important book dealing with a timeless but underappreciated issue: who owns the land. It illuminates how social hierarchies and injustice have been historically built around unfair land rights and provides a fascinating array of examples of how reshuffling land can help tackle these pressing issues."-- Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its Discontents
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"'Land'--Four simple letters. Four enormous impacts: on racial divides, gender inequality, the struggle for development, and our precarious environment. In this powerful and compelling book, Michael Albertus re-invents how to think about that most simple but profound force shaping our lives--the ground beneath us."-- Ben Ansell, author of Why Politics Fails
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" Land Power is a fascinating book on the power of land inequality in history and the large land reshufflings of the past and present. It is a must-read to think about the coming struggles over land in the 21st century."-- Thomas Piketty, New York Times-bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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"A vigorously argued account of how patterns of landholding shape and are shaped by political power. Global in scope, Land Power is lively, well-informed, and highly illuminating."-- Patrick Joyce, author of Remembering Peasants
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"Magisterial, accessible, and compelling, Land Power vaults across time and geography to provide an extraordinarily learned account of the role of landed power in displacement, inequities, and exploitation. Spanning from 10,000 BC through a nineteenth century cascade of land reallocations and into a dramatically transformed future, it reveals that the rise of the dispossessed is rarely a guarantee of justice for all, but the advent of a new set of winners and losers."-- Margaret Levi, Stanford University
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"Now more than ever it's essential to talk about land use with the widest lens possible. Land Power offers new insights into how public and private initiatives worldwide can effectively safeguard ecosystems and societies for future generations of all life."-- Kristine Tompkins, President and Co-founder of Tompkins Conservation
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"In his book Land Power, Albertus lays out a convincing argument at a global scale for the effect land ownership, control, and use has had on social structures, including the profound disruption of our tribes. He concludes, 'Land reshuffling also continues because deep wounds from past land grabs haven't healed, and something can still be done about it.' This is what has driven the Indian Land Tenure Foundation since its founding, and what makes me burn today."-- Cris Stainbrook, president, Indian Land Tenure Foundation
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"This is a powerfully evocative study that confronts us with the shock of the old: that land still matters enormously to how power is distributed today. Albertus is an expert guide on a dazzling tour of the world today and of different societies across history. He exposes the influence of past land grabs in shaping the present, but also emphatically shows how the global reallocation of land is an ongoing process--one that we can bend in a better direction."-- Nicholas Mulder, author of The Economic Weapon
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"A masterful telling of the making of the modern world, where all comes back to the land. Brilliant, bold, and provocative, Land Power explains how land reshuffling led to enslavement and to the dispossession of indigenous populations, women, and ethnic minorities, paving the way for some of the world's greatest social ills. Albertus documents how we arrived here and the policies some countries are adopting to repair past land reshuffles. A hugely engaging book and a major contribution to our understanding of today's world."-- Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
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