Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Uncommon Ground
1 Transaction
2 Foundation
3 Population
4 Exploitation
5 Demarcation, Eviction, Possession
6 Exploration

Part I Borderlines
1 When the Worm Forgave the Plough
2 The Size of All the Earth
3 Just Where Is Everything
4 At the Edges of Worlds
5 Drawing a Distinction

Part II Annals of Acquisition
1 Up and Out and On the Level
2 Islands of the Dammed
3 Red Territory
4 The Land and the Gentry

Part III Stewardship
1 The Tragedies of Improvement
2 The Accumulators of Space
3 Going Nowhere and Everywhere
4 The World Made Wild Again
5 On Wisdom, Down Under
6 Parks, Recreation, and Plutonium

Part IV Battlegrounds
1 The Dreary Steeples
2 The Unholy Land
3 Death on the Rich Black Earth
4 Concentration and Confiscation

Part V Annals of Restoration
1 Maori in Arcady
2 Strangers in the Hebrides
3 Bringing Africa Home
4 Aliens in Wonderland
5 Trust Is Everything

Epilogue: Yet Now the Land Is Drowning

With Great Thanks
A Glossary of Terms, Some Possibly Unfamiliar, Associated with Land and Its Ownership
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