Land Power

Land Power is a fascinating book on the power of land inequality in history and the large land reshufflings of the past and present. It is a must-read to think about the coming struggles over land in the 21st century

Land has always been a source of economic wealth. This captivating book demonstrates that it has also been a fountainhead of political and social power, profoundly shaping the organization and political structures of many societies

Land Power is an important book dealing with a timeless but underappreciated issue: who owns the land. It illuminates how social hierarchies and injustice have been historically built around unfair land rights and provides a fascinating array of examples of how reshuffling land can help tackle these pressing issues

With a sweeping scope across history and around the world, Albertus offers his readers a novel view on the rise of the modern world. Land - who controls it, who owns it, who works it, and efforts to alter all this - sits at the basis of social power and political power in the modern world

A vigorously argued account of how patterns of landholding shape and are shaped by political power. Global in scope, Land Power is lively, well-informed, and highly illuminating

"Land" - Four simple letters. Four enormous impacts: on racial divides, gender inequality, the struggle for development, and our precarious environment. In this powerful and compelling book, Michael Albertus re-invents how to think about that most simple but profound force shaping our lives - the ground beneath us

A powerfully evocative study that confronts us with the shock of the old: that land still matters enormously to how power is distributed today. Albertus is an expert guide on a dazzling tour of the world today and of different societies across history. He exposes the influence of past land grabs in shaping the present, but also emphatically shows how the global reallocation of land is an ongoing process-one that we can bend in a better direction