A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon,an agent of displacement and exploitation,the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain,it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't. Property is a vivid,far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership,from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India,of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia,of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx,of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's "property-owning democracy."Above all,Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better,with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571350094Number of pages: 336Weight: 347 gDimensions: 216 x 135 x 24 mmEdition: Main
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