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.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062938336
- ISBN: 0062938339
- Physical Description: xiii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 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:
- 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. 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. Land and the gentry -- PART III: STEWARDSHIP. 1. Tragedies of improvement -- 2. Accumulations of space -- 3. Going nowhere and everywhere -- 4. World made wild again -- 5. On wisdom, down under -- 6. Parks, recreation, and plutonium -- PART IV: BATTLEGROUNDS. 1. Dreary steeples 2. Unholy land -- 3. Death on the rich black earth -- 4. Concentration and confiscation -- PART V: ANNALS OF RESTORATION. 1. Māori 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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