My land is your land. A drawn history of micronations, communities, and other handmade states

My land is your land. A drawn history of micronations, communities, and other handmade states

The heroes of this book share one thing — the desire to live in a better, ideal world.
«My land is your land» — a comic guide to thirty handmade states, founded by dreamers, utopians, and like-minded people. To change the... world around them, many of them had to fight against the condemnation of their fellow citizens, argue with the laws, and even with nature itself.

On the way to their dreams, New Age religion followers dug tunnels in the foothills of the Italian Alps over 14 years, creating 8500 cubic meters of tunnels — and never got caught by the authorities; Lester Hemingway invested money earned from the biography of his famous brother into creating New Atlantis; Henry Ford established Fordlandia in Brazil (what wouldn’t you do for discounts on rubber); in 1971, in the center of Copenhagen, a group of anarchists founded the Free City of Christiania (and still live there); another 26 teams of enthusiasts created their own microstates, albeit existing for a short time, but surely made it into history.

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Age restrictions: 18+

Year of publication: 2020

ISBN: 9785907056527

Number of pages: 160

Size: 205x260x11 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 516 g

ID: 675780

The heroes of this book share one thing — the desire to live in a better, ideal world.

«My land is your land» — a comic guide to thirty handmade states, founded by dreamers, utopians, and like-minded people. To change the world around them, many of them had to fight against the condemnation of their fellow citizens, argue with the laws, and even with nature itself.

On the way to their dreams, New Age religion followers dug tunnels in the foothills of the Italian Alps over 14 years, creating 8500 cubic meters of tunnels — and never got caught by the authorities; Lester Hemingway invested money earned from the biography of his famous brother into creating New Atlantis; Henry Ford established Fordlandia in Brazil (what wouldn’t you do for discounts on rubber); in 1971, in the center of Copenhagen, a group of anarchists founded the Free City of Christiania (and still live there); another 26 teams of enthusiasts created their own microstates, albeit existing for a short time, but surely made it into history.

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