Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world
by Winchester, Simon (Author)
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. Full description
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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Physical Description: |
xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780062938336 0062938339 |
Author Notes: |
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) |