Land Power
Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
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Land Power
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Michael Albertus
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'Captivating' DARON ACEMOGLU
'Fascinating' FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
An award-winning political scientist shows that a society's path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land.
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power, political scientist Michael Albertus shows that who owns the land determines whether a society will be equal or unequal, whether it will develop or decline, and whether it will safeguard or sacrifice its environment.
Modern history has been defined by land reallocation on a massive scale. From the 1500s on, European colonial powers and new nation-states shifted indigenous lands into the hands of settlers. The 1900s brought new waves of land appropriation, from Soviet and Maoist collectivization to initiatives turning large estates over to family farmers. With the establishment of cooperatives in North Africa, the displacement of Native Americans and divisive inheritance laws of post-partition India, land decisions reverberate to this day as governments vie for power and prosperity by choosing who should get land. Drawing on a career's worth of original research and on-the-ground fieldwork, Albertus shows that choices about who owns the land have locked in poverty, sexism, racism, and climate crisis-and that what we do with the land today can change our collective fate.
Global in scope, Land Power argues that saving civilization must begin with the earth under our feet.©2025 Michael Albertus (P)2025 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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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)
As someone who knew little about the issue of land appropriation and subsequent land reform, I am now well informed and inspired to learn more.
This book is an ideal text for students of politics, international relations, etc.
An essential book for our times
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