| International Standard Book Number |
9780062938336 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0062938339 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
333.3/09 23
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| Personal Name |
Winchester, Simon, author.
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| Title Statement |
Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2021
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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| Physical Description |
xiii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
cartographic image cri rdacontent
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
List of illustrations -- PROLOGUE: UNCOMMON GROUND. 1. Transaction -- 2. Foundation -- 3. Population -- 4. Exploitation -- PART I: BORDERLINES. 1. When the worm forgave the plough -- 2. The size of all the Earth -- 3. Just where is everything -- 4. At the edges of world -- 5. Drawing a distinction -- PART II: ANNALS OF ACQUISITION. 1. Up and out and on the level -- 2. Islands of the damned -- 3. Red territory -- 4. The land and the gentry -- PART III: STEWARDSHIP. 1. The tragedies of improvement -- 2. The accumulations of space -- 3. Going nowhere and everywhere -- 4. The world made wild again -- 5. On wisdom, down under -- 6. Parks, recreation, and plutonium -- PART IV: BATTLEGROUNDS. 1. The dreary steeples 2. The unholy land -- 3. Death on the rich black earth -- 4. Concentration and confiscation -- PART V: ANNALS OF RESTORATION. 1. Måaori in Arcady -- 2. Strangers in the Hebrides -- 3. Bringing Africa home -- 4. Aliens in wonderland -- 5. Trust is everything -- Epilogue: Yet now the land is drowning -- With great thanks -- A glossary of terms, some possibly unfamiliar, associated with land and its ownership -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Land examines in depth how we determine where the land lies, how we acquire it, 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 questions: who actually owns the world's land, how much of it do we really need, and why does it matter?" -- Inside front jacket flap.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World history.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World history. fast (OCoLC)fst01181345
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / World. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nature Effect of human beings on. fast (OCoLC)fst01034564
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land tenure Law and legislation. fast (OCoLC)fst00991383
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land tenure. fast (OCoLC)fst00991362
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land tenure History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land tenure Law and legislation History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land use History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land use Law and legislation History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nature Effect of human beings on History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land use. fast (OCoLC)fst00991472
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Land use Law and legislation. fast (OCoLC)fst00991514
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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