Long Land War w/ Jo Guldi

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Long Land War w/ Jo Guldi

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Featuring Jo Guldi on the global history of the long land war—a war over everything from agrarian reform to tenant rights, from India and China to England and Ireland, from the late 19th century through the present—and into the future.

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