University of Wisconsin–Madison

Land Tenure and Land Privatization

The Hegemony of Private Land

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  • Explores how private land ownership became the dominant U.S. land tenure system, and see alternative systems, both historic and contemporary.

The Global Commons Lesson

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  • A presentation on the idea of Global Commons, which includes definitions, themes, and discussion questions.

 

The development of these materials was supported through a Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.