The chapter discusses the historiographical context of land reform and its place in big picture histories such as the history of capitalism and colonialism. It mentions previous attempts to write a global history of land reform and the decline of discourse on land reform in academia and the United States after the 1970s. The chapter emphasizes the importance of understanding the connection between land ownership, race, and gender.
Featuring Jo Guldi on the global history of the long land war—a war over everything from agrarian reform to tenant rights, from India and China to England and Ireland, from the late 19th century through the present—and into the future.
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