The globalisation of real estate is impacting many cities in the world. Whilst many scholars have written two-dimensional descriptive studies of global real estate trends, Dallas Rogers has produced a riveting analysis of the historical forces in global real estate investment. His book provides a rich context for analysing the property markets of the world’s most important cities.

Peter Phibbs, Professor, University of Sydney

The globalisation of real estate has been a topic where investigative journalists and populist authors have out-paced academic scholars. One of the objectives of this timely and innovative volume by Dallas Rogers is to re-frame current property debates in settler societies. The book both deepens and also reconfigures our understanding of land as commodity through a post-structural exegesis of property episodes across time and space.

David Ley, Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

Ingenious. With forensic analytical acuity, Dallas Rogers connects seemingly disparate processes and events to reveal the organizing logics that have always driven the geopolitical transfer of land, bodies, labour and capital. Taking us from Indigenous creation stories, to communism in China, Westphalian sovereignty, the invention of title deeds, and the rise of populist wealth-creation manuals Rogers brings a distinctive perspective to studies of geopolitics, real estate and settler-colonialism alike. This is a book that will challenge these heretofore separate debates into a more profound and transformative dialogue with one another.

Libby Porter, Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia

This is an extremely ambitious work, demonstrating substantial scholarship and original research.

Housing Studies

In the face of increasingly sensationalist discourses surrounding foreign real estate investments, this book is a welcomed contribution that contextualizes present developments while offering an incisive history of the politics of real estate.

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment