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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. |
Search for related items by subject
| 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. |
Available copies
- 16 of 16 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
Holds
- 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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