{"product_id":"9780571350094","title":"Property : The myth that built the world","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Moore, Rowan  (Architecture Critic) \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSociety \u0026amp; social sciences\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 November 2023 by Faber \u0026amp; Faber in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e136 x 216 x 28 | 356g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491489530242,"sku":"9780571350094","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780571350094.jpg?v=1753748666","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9780571350094","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}