Steven Stoll is Professor of History at Fordham University. He is writing a history of land.
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The Tragedy of Misunderstanding the Commons
Twelfth-century peasants developed commons practices to survive domination. We could use them to reclaim our lives from capitalism.
Steven Stoll
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