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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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LAND
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"He does the same with the brutal dispossession of native populations in North America ..."
"Winchester [adds] authority and panache to the narrative ..."
"informative and thought-provoking ..."
"Few authors share Winchester's ability to explore land's intrinsic value, move from one sequence to the next so the chapters can be read discretely."
"Winchester, whose rigorously organized mind seems able to codify and categorize any human endeavor into sustained good reading, could easily have hopped from continent to continent, country to country, exploring each region's land relationships through the perfectly legitimate lenses of history, geology, governance, resources, economies and as many other parameters as made sense."
"Winchester's large audience will enjoy this well-worded, interdisciplinary look into the relationship between humans and the land."
"Winchester delivers a riveting history of mapmaking...disheartening accounts of mass acquisitions and theft ..."
"Winchester's nostalgia leads him to skate over the involvement of cartographers, surveyors, and other diligent functionaries in the inner workings of conquest and empire ..."
"despite Winchester's evident sympathy toward dispossessed Native Americans, which serves as a kind of leitmotif throughout Land, there are too many sentences that could have come out of a high school textbook ..."
"Winchester's colorfully rendered capsule biographies help to convey the gravity of certain historical milestones ..."
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