As an account of concepts of freedom, this book might perhaps be placed in a History or Philosophy section. We hope you will take its inclusion under Current Affairs as a gesture of hope!
A provocative denunciation of enclosure and boundaries by a writer who is also an illustrator and print-maker. Timely too, when Parliament is in the throes of cinching the laws of trespass s... read more
A useful book from CUP, as thorough as you would expect. Paris and London in the 1720s, Latin America a century later, New York in the 1920s, Shanghai in the 2000s amongst others.
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.