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



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 ...