Owning the earth : the transforming history of land ownership / Andro Linklater.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466) and index.

A new way of owning the earth -- The concept -- The rights and politics of owning the earth -- The rights of private property -- The two capitalisms -- The morality of property -- The alternative to private property -- What came before -- The peasants -- Autocratic ownership -- The equilibrium of land ownership -- The society that private property created -- Land becomes mind -- The independence of an owner -- The challenge to private property -- The triumph of individual ownership -- The evolution of property -- The empire of land -- The end of serfdom and slavery -- The crisis of capitalism -- The threat to democracy -- State capitalism -- The Cold war -- The end of land reform -- Rostow's legacy -- The experiment that failed -- The economics of the industrial home -- Undoing the damage -- Feeding the future -- Epilogue.