Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth—century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty—first—century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high finance, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground 150 years of class struggle over land as a catalyst for assembling the global financial constellation. Narrating the close—knit histories of industria...