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From the writer of the acclaimed Measuring America, a stunning chronicle, through background and across ethnicities, about how the capability to own the land we inhabit has molded modern society. Hardly two centuries previously, most of the world's fruitful land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or even to the higher forces of monarch or church. But that routine, and the means of life that went with it, were consigned to background by, Andro Linklater persuasively argues, the most creative and at the same time destructive cultural make in the present day era - the thought of individual, exclusive possession of land. Distributing from both shores of the north Atlantic, it laid waste material to traditional communal civilizations, displacing complete peoples off their homelands, but at the same time brought into being truly a unique concept of individual liberty and a distinct form of representative federal and democratic organizations. By contrast, as Linklater demonstrates, other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, advanced very different constructions of land possession and thus different forms of federal and interpersonal responsibility. The history and development of land possession is a remarkable chronicle in the history of civilization, offering sudden insights about how exactly various varieties of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing evaluation of another where the Globe must maintain nine billion lives. Seen through the sight of exceptional individuals - Chinese language emperors; German peasants; the 17th hundred years British surveyor William Petty, who first saw the bond between private property and free-market capitalism; the North american radical Wolf Ladejinsky, whose land redistribution in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea after WWII made possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies - Getting the Globe reveals a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.
