The Age of Confiscation
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
$74.10
- 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 industrialization, the rise and fall of colonial empires, and the ex…
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 *
Confiscation is back with a bang. Trump demands government shares in business, centrists want to blow up local opposition to development, and the left dreams of remaking the economy. Nicholas Mulder explains with verve and intelligence that property rights were never as solid as they seemed, and sets the scene for what happens next * Henry Farrell *
Mulder’s illuminating study challenges one of capitalism’s most enduring narratives: that private property exists apart from state intervention. He reveals expropriation as a central instrument of modern governance, showing how private owners have not only survived but often profited from the very processes that transformed their property * Clara Mattei *
Nicholas Mulder
Nicholas Mulder is Associate Professor of History and Milstein Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He specializes in political and economic history and is the author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Yale, 2022). His work received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association and the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Guardian.
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