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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 bett

Property

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571350094
      978-0571350094
      ISBN-10 0571350097
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 bett

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