{"product_id":"9780571350094-property","title":"Property","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe myth that built the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProperty carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProperty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove all, \u003ci\u003eProperty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40954939605089,"sku":"9780571350094","price":11.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36415230_7c38af04-69dc-488a-aced-aba889960acc.jpg?v=1759495413","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571350094-property","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}