Land: How the Thirst for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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About This Novel
This is a global study that explores land ownership, use, management and its impact on human society. Through rich historical cases, geographical changes, cultural conflicts and integration, the author shows how land has shaped the modern world and how human beings' desire for land has driven the development of history. Simon Winchester, author of "The Professor and the Madman", "Geniuses and Fanatics" and "The Pursuit of Accuracy", travels across Europe, Africa, North America and the South Pacific in this book, and explores the phenomenon of land ownership that has been bought, sold, earned or inherited in the long history of mankind, and explores its shaping effect on human civilization and its implications for future development. ? This book takes land as the core, spans time, space and regions, and reveals how human beings' desire, competition and governance for land profoundly shape the process of civilization. From the origins of agriculture to modern boundary delineation, from colonial plunder to indigenous resistance, from the tragedy of privatization to ecological restoration, the book combines global cases such as Dutch land reclamation, Native American land occupation, Ukrainian collectivization disaster, and New Zealand's Maori rights movement to analyze the power, culture, and ecological conflicts behind land ownership, and explores the hope of new management models such as land trusts and community autonomy. Through an epic narrative, it is shown that land is not only a battlefield for resources, but also a mirror image of human identity, belonging and future. And when rising sea levels collapse the assumption that "land is eternal," this book reminds us that re-examining the relationship between people and land is an urgent proposition that the world must face at this moment.
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