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The Great Demarcation The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property

Rafe Blaufarb

What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contin...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra praised the book as an excellent study of the French Revolution's creation of the modern property system.

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there's an excellent book on the French Revolution written by Ralph Blouffard, called The Great Demarcation, which I really recommend. I think it's a great book about the invention of the modern prope...

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Ezra praised the book as an excellent study of the French Revolution's creation of the modern property system.

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there's an excellent book on the French Revolution written by Ralph Blouffard, called The Great Demarcation, which I really recommend. I think it's a great book about the invention of the modern property system during the French Revolution and how, you know, complex the discussion was at the time.

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