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Author:
Winchester, Simon, author.
Title:
Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.
Edition:
First Harper Large Print edition.
Publisher:
Harper Large Printan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvi, 671 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Land tenure--History.
Land tenure--Social aspects.
Land tenure--History.--History.
Land use--History.
Land use--Social aspects.
Land use--History.--History.
Nature--History.--History.
World history.
Large type books.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-671)
Contents:
Uncommon ground -- Borderlines -- Annals of acquisition -- Stewardship -- Battlegrounds -- Annals of restoration -- Yet now the land is drowning.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
0063063018
9780063063013
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1224592571
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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