The Age of Confiscation
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
$72.25
- Hardcover
768 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
A sweeping, resonant, revelatory history of how the expropriation of property made the modern world, by a brilliant young historian
Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent revolution. But in fact, it has been integral to the political and economic history of the West, enabling everything from the abolition of serfdom and slavery to decolonization, Allied victory in two world wars and the birth of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241582718 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241582717 |
| Author: | Nicholas Mulder |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 50mm x 156mm x 240mm |
Critics Review
Nicholas Mulder shows us that the modern world is largely about the codification of property rights - but it is also about large redistributions of wealth. A major lesson for the age of climate catastrophes, a must-read * Thomas Piketty *
Nicholas Mulder
Nicholas Mulder is associate professor of history and Milstein Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He specializes in the history of geoeconomics and is the author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Yale, 2022), which received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association and the Stuart Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and elsewhere.
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