The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world
 
“An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
 
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered “land reform” policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974.
 
The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.
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The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights
A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world
 
“An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
 
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered “land reform” policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974.
 
The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.
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The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

by Jo Guldi
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

by Jo Guldi

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A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world
 
“An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
 
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands. The book describes the results of state-engineered “land reform” policies beginning in Ireland in 1881 until U.S.-led interests and the World Bank effectively killed them off in 1974.
 
The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300264869
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 04/19/2022
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Jo Guldi is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches courses on the history of Britain, the British Empire, modern development policy, and property law. She lives in Richardson, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Techniques of Occupancy 1

1 A Parade for Empire's End 36

Part I Decolonizing; or, The Rome Consensus and the Peasant Origins of World Government 53

2 Something Like a Global Government of Land 57

3 Can Land Redistribution Scale with Population? 97

Part II Cartophilia; or, Building Information Infrastructures 127

4 An Information Pipeline 131

5 On Failing to Make a Map in Time 152

6 The Questionable Effectiveness of Bibliography 179

Part III Bureauphobia; or, The Revolt Against Government and the "Third Way" 207

7 The Peasant's Calculator 209

8 China and the Battle over Memory 229

9 Racism, Skepticism, and the Cloak of Science in U.S. Debates About Land Redistribution 258

10 A Neoliberal Rebellion in Britain 284

Part IV Resistance; or, A Democratic Program for Occupancy 307

11 Techniques of the Mystic: The Long Walk of Vinoba Bhave 311

12 The Technique of the Squat: The Origins of Squatting After the Second World War 334

13 The Technique of the Map: Indigenous Title, Rent Control, and Pollution 354

Epilogue: Why Land Redistribution Matters in the Age of Climate Change 383

Appendix: A Note on Methodology and Terminology 411

Timeline 433

Notes 435

Index 557

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