TY  - GEN
AU  - Wall, Derek
TI  - Commons in history - culture, conflict and ecology 
SN  - 9780262027212
U1  - 333.7 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - MIT Press 
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Foreword xi 
Acknowledgments xvii
1.Commons Ecology 1 
Overview 2
Commons, Sustainability, and Environmental History 3
What Is the Commons? 4
Contested Commons 10
The Tragedy of the Commons   18
Commons as a Solution 20
Commons History: England, Mongolia, and India 23 
Successful Commons 32 
Ecologically Failed Commons 37
2.Culture in Common? 43 
Commons as an Economic Solution 47 
Culture as a Means of Conservation 52 
Culture versus Economics 56
The Gift Economy 59
Contested Cultures 62
Misreading the Cultural Commons 67
3.Commons in Conflict 71
The Assault on the Commons 73 
Enclosure and Colonization 79 
Ecological Imperialism 84 
The Radical Case for the Commons 86
Conflicted Commons 90 Commons, Conflict, and Gender 96 
Continuing Commons 98
4.Questions for Good Ancestors 101
How Do We Research the Commons? 105 
How Can the Commons Sustain the Environment? 110 
How Do We Socially Share? 114 
How Do We Fight the Crab ? 119 
How Do We Love the Land? 126 
Before Time People 129 
Notes 137
Selected Readings on the Commons 155 
Index 157



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