Packed with revelatory information, the book:
* identifies the person who owns the largest proportion of the world's land and documents that person's landholdings;
* provides details of the next 25 top landowners;
* reveals that aristocratic families own over 60 per cent of Europe's land mass and receive most of the EC's agricultural subsidy allowance;
* documents the vast landholdings of the four largest religious groups: the Catholic Church and the other Christian churches, the Islamic trusts, and the temple possessions of the Hindus and Buddhists;
* details the landownership structure of all the countries of the British Commonwealth;
* contains a complete survey of the historic record of landownership, starting in Mesopotamia/Iraq in 8000 BC;
* lists many of the world's great Domesdays, going back to the earliest, in Ptolemaic Egypt;
* includes an analysis of the legal structures that have reduced 85 per cent of the earth's population to serfdom.
This is a breathtaking tome of huge political, economic and social importance. It will revolutionise our understanding of our planet, its history and its land.



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