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Land how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world

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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Main Author:	Winchester, Simon (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Land tenure > History.
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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.
Physical Description:	xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index.
ISBN:	9780062938336 0062938339
Author Notes:	Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer. He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature. (Bowker Author Biography)