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Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.
Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062938336
- ISBN: 0062938339
- ISBN: 9780062938343
- Physical Description: xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: uncommon ground -- Transaction -- Foundation -- Population -- Exploitation -- Demarcation, eviction, possession -- Exploration -- Borderlines -- When the worm forgave the plough -- The size of all the Earth -- Just where is everything -- At the edges of worlds -- Drawing a distinction -- Annals of acquisition -- Up and out and on the level -- Islands of the dammed -- Red territory -- The land and the gentry -- Stewardship -- The tragedies of improvement -- The accumulators of space -- Going nowhere and everywhere -- The world made wild again -- On wisdom, down under -- Parks, recreation, and plutonium -- Battlegrounds -- The dreary steeples -- The unholy land -- Death on the rich black earth -- Concentration and confiscation -- Annals of restoration -- Maori in Arcady -- Strangers in the Hebrides -- Bringing Africa home -- Aliens in wonderland -- Trust is everything -- Epilogue: yet now the land is drowning. |
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| Subject: | Land use > History. Land use > Law and legislation > History. Land tenure > Law and legislation > History. Land tenure > History. Nature > Effect of human beings on > History. |
| Genre: | Informational works. |
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- 16 of 16 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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- 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kansas City Public Library | 333.3 WINCHESTER 2021 (Text) | 0001002433967 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Land : How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
"In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide."--Boston Globe The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property--bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South Pacific--through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Land--whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city--is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing--and have done--with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world's land--and why does it matter?
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