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

My Book Cart (0 items) | Login

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

Winchester, Simon,

Book | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 2021 | First edition.

Available at Bosler Nonfiction Area (333.3 WINCHESTER 2021) plus 3 more

Additional actions:

see all

Location	Call No.	Status	Messages
Bosler Nonfiction Area	333.3 WINCHESTER 2021	Checked In	---
Fredricksen Main Level - Nonfiction	333.3 WINCHESTER 2021	Checked In	---
New Cumberland Nonfiction - Main Level	333.3 WINCHESTER 2021	Checked In
Shippensburg Main Floor - Big Room, Right Side	333.3 WINCHESTER 2021	Checked In	---

Show fewer items

Copies on order

Title	Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world / Simon Winchester.
Author	Winchester, Simon,
Publication Info.	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] ©2021.
Edition	First edition.
Description	xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-427) and index.
Subject	Land tenure -- History. Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- History. Land use -- History. Land use -- Law and legislation -- History. World history. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.
ISBN	9780062938336 (hardcover) 0062938339 (hardcover)