{"product_id":"property-the-myth-that-built-the-world","title":"Property: The myth that built the world","description":"A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.  Property 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.  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.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40812792381525,"sku":"9780571350094N","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/cb686021-36e9-4985-a18a-bedde0c8df7e.jpg?v=1712755700","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/property-the-myth-that-built-the-world","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}