--- product_id: 56326325 title: "Land" brand: "derek hall" price: "€ 44.82" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/56326325-land store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Land **Brand:** derek hall **Price:** € 44.82 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Land by derek hall - **How much does it cost?** € 44.82 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/56326325-land) ## Best For - derek hall enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted derek hall brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Land - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31fXJT0NKkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ All that is Solid Melts into Property *by L***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018* Basic textbook of sorts, laying foundations of land as property and territory in the era of modern nations states and capitalism, being most interesting in its case studies, but overall almost so shallow as to fail being a springboard into much deeper issues of power, finance, and sovereignty.Land is a rock upon which ideas and forces, via the modes (as grouped by Derek Hall) of territory, property, and regulation, act to substantiate the fictions of domain. Territory is the imaginary of monarch’s, nations, citizens, peasants, and indigenous peoples; it comprises the most primordial sense of land, both historically and ancestrally, as a place to live or benefit from. Thus, right to territory is fuzzy and overlapping, often requires physical defense or active legitimating use, and demands some register of authority, both as an appeal to history and as an orientation of warrant. Property as a strict understanding of ownership to land is a newer concept, one that has grown not only from prior conceptions of ownership (i.e., from goods or domiciles), but primarily from the encouragement of the geographic technics of land surveying and mapping, as Hall explains in chapter two. It is the conditioning of land as circumscribed property that opens doors not only to the free market transfer of land via sales (as opposed to gift or lease under eminent domain of the king, and to which a petition for typical modern land uses would appear anachronistic), but also interacts with regulation. By ensuring that a land is titled, for instance, state taxation becomes feasible, law within buildings or fenced areas becomes officially established, and nothing remains of an agrarian, shared notion of land and its territoriality.Land may be the least illiberally marketed in the international economy, being that it is so constrained to place in regards to sentiment, security, and resource, but its limits of commodification are circumvented in many ways. A common corporate approach of leasing land and finagling regulation is often preferred for reasons of limited liability and limited commitment to the region. While the colonial days of seizing land are officially over, and nations are relatively settled in the global political map, what is occurring looks familiarly colonialist, familiarly imperialist. Not only are vestigial colonial models for land regulation in use throughout post-colonial nations, but as James Ferguson puts it his article "Seeing Like An Oil Company," extracted wealth “does not ‘flow’,” but rather “hops," in the traditional imperialist model of loot and pillage. And where corporations were once custodians of the public, as laid out in Joshua Barkan’s 'Corporate Sovereignty,' today these have morphed into mere infrastructure barons under the tools of IFIs, where economic restructuring is not inclusive, but looks more like dropping your empire smack dab in another country. Furthermore, much land development, whether as grabs or investments, hinge on speculation, both of the resources to be found and change in future resource demands. This paints the current economic system as the new frontier, where money is sought in bricolage approach, at speeds of ignorance and paranoia, echoing Ferguson’s claim that we are indeed no longer in the schema of “seeing like a state.” Though these modes of capital are not the case everywhere, there is still a sense that the planet, once wholly god’s land, is in a restructuring by way of sutured economic territories that resemble one stronghold and one exterior wasteland. ### ⭐⭐ Required course textbook. It was poorly written and convoluted ... *by A***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016* Required course textbook. It was poorly written and convoluted. Did not provide enough background or explanations of terms and concepts. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important book, and a good read. This book will make you smarter. *by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2013* As an undergraduate science major at Berkeley a decade ago, I fulfilled a breadth requirement by taking a class called "International Rural Development Policy". I had heard it was good class (mostly due to the professor, Claudia Carr), but it wasn't a subject I was familiar with. It was eye-opening, and one of the best classes I've ever taken. It was *important*, and I learned a lot. The course expanded my mind.This book is the same, and for largely the same reasons. It deals with a subject that is extremely important, to millions of people all over the world. And most of us here in first-world countries like the United States don't think about these issues nearly as often as we should. The ways people and institutions deal with land affects everyone, everywhere, and this book does a good job introducing the otherwise overwhelming and complicated subject to the reader.While the book isn't long, it's not a quick or easy read: the tone is academic, and I found myself having to re-read sections where I wasn't paying enough attention. The author uses primarily case studies taken from all over the world to illustrate the variety of concerns individuals, communities, states (nations), and transnational entities have when dealing with the subject of land, whether as territory, property, or the ways in which it is regulated.I suppose the book was somewhat limited by its scope and length. It was a high-level, impartial survey of land issues. It won't teach you how to get involved, or why the World Bank is the enemy of us all. Like most real-world issues, it's often hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and not everything is black and white. One of the reasons I appreciate books like this, and courses like the one I took at Berkeley is specifically because they broaden my perspective by introducing me to subjects and viewpoints I wasn't aware of before. So yes, this book will make you smarter.I was impressed with this book, and already have plans to read several of the other books in this just-released series by Polity. I imagine the books  Water , Oil , Food , Fish , and  Timber  will come first, as they're all topics I'm interested in as an environmental scientist. I feel a little stupid that I don't know what  Coltan  is, because it's probably just as important. Okay, I have to go look that up now.Anyway, get this book. Or read a library copy. Like so many worthwhile endeavors, it might not be the easiest or most fun thing you'll ever do, but it'll be worth it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/56326325-land](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/56326325-land) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*