Land : : how the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Uncommon ground -- Borderlines -- Annals of acquisition -- Stewardship -- Battlegrounds -- Annals of restoration -- Yet now the land is drowning.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062938343
9780062938336
0062938339
SUBJECTS
Land tenure -- History.
Land tenure -- History.
Land use -- History.
Land use -- History.
World history.
Nature -- History.