The Resource Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
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The item Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Land -- whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city -- is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing -- and have done -- with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. This book examines in depth how we acquire land, 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 question: who actually owns the world's land -- and why does it matter?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 671 pages (large print)
- Contents
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- Uncommon ground
- Borderlines
- Annals of acquisition
- Stewardship
- Battlegrounds
- Annals of restoration
- Yet now the land is drowning
- Isbn
- 9780063063013
- Label
- Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world
- Title
- Land
- Title remainder
- how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world
- Statement of responsibility
- Simon Winchester
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Land -- whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city -- is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing -- and have done -- with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. This book examines in depth how we acquire land, 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 question: who actually owns the world's land -- and why does it matter?
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Winchester, Simon
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Land tenure
- Land tenure
- Land tenure
- Land use
- Land use
- Land use
- Nature
- World history
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Uncommon ground
- Borderlines
- Annals of acquisition
- Stewardship
- Battlegrounds
- Annals of restoration
- Yet now the land is drowning
- Control code
- p2251626377
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 671 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780063063013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- large print
- Label
- Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Uncommon ground
- Borderlines
- Annals of acquisition
- Stewardship
- Battlegrounds
- Annals of restoration
- Yet now the land is drowning
- Control code
- p2251626377
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 671 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780063063013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- large print
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