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Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world  Cover Image Book Book

Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.

Winchester, Simon, (author.).

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  • 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]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index.
Subject: Land tenure > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Orford Libraries.

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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.

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