[Review] Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership (Andro Linklater) Summarized.

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership (Andro Linklater)

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Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater is a wide-ranging work of historical nonfiction about one of the most consequential legal and cultural ideas of the modern world: the claim that an individual can own land exclusively. Linklater traces how systems of communal tenure, dynastic control, feudal obligation, customary use, and religious authority were gradually displaced or challenged by private property regimes, especially in the North Atlantic world. The book is not a narrow legal history. It connects land tenure to capitalism, democracy, colonial expansion, inequality, agricultural productivity, and modern financial crises. Its purpose is to show that ownership of land is not a natural or timeless arrangement, but a historically produced institution with deep political consequences. By comparing Europe, North America, Russia, China, the Islamic world, and land reform movements in Asia, Linklater presents land ownership as a force that has enabled liberty while also legitimizing dispossession and concentration of wealth.