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Jo Guldi is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Her most recent book is The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.
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