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Books > Money & Finance > Property & real estate
Toby Ditz explores the relationship among inheritance, kinship,
and the commercialization of agriculture. Comparing four upland
communities with a Connecticut River Valley town, she finds that
inheritance practices in the late colonial era heavily favored some
male heirs and created shared rights in property. These customs
continued into the early nineteenth century in the upland, but in
the commercialized river-valley town practices became more
egalitarian and individualized.
Originally published in 1986.
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The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning
author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis
in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK.
Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds
of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by
luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological
war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only
market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of
global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In
politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key
driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation.
Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give
a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can
get out of it.
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