Land In America
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Land In America
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Author : Richard N. L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Great Source Education Group
Release Date : 1979
Land In America written by Richard N. L. Andrews and has been published by Great Source Education Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Business & Economics categories.
"A book about land: about the history of land in America, about people's perceptions and images of land, about ownership, and about government and land."--p. x.
Land In America
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Author : Peter M. Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1981
Land In America written by Peter M. Wolf and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Business & Economics categories.
American Property
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Author : Stuart Banner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
American Property written by Stuart Banner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Law categories.
In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property? The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law? Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires. Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire.
Making America S Public Lands
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Author : Adam M. Sowards
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-04-15
Making America S Public Lands written by Adam M. Sowards and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with History categories.
Throughout American history, “public lands” have been the subject of controversy, from homesteaders settling the American west to ranchers who use the open range to promote free enterprise, to wilderness activists who see these lands as wild places. This book shows how these controversies intersect with critical issues of American history.
Facts About U S Landownership
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Author : Gene Wunderlich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Facts About U S Landownership written by Gene Wunderlich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Land tenure categories.
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The American Settler S Guide
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Author : Henry Norris Copp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The American Settler S Guide written by Henry Norris Copp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Business & Economics categories.
Who Owns America S Land
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Author : Gene Wunderlich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Who Owns America S Land written by Gene Wunderlich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Land use, Rural categories.
The Lands No One Knows
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Author : Tom H. Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1975
The Lands No One Knows written by Tom H. Watkins and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Law categories.
"Every American has a landed inheritance. It is the public domain--land owned and administered by the federal government and held in trust for the people of the United States, all of the people of the United States. Created in the years preceding and following the Revolutionary War and enlarged as America spread west from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, this national legacy at its greatest included more than two billion acres of land. Today [as of 1975], after two centuries of confusion, mismanagement, corruption, and abuse, 453 million acres still remain--an inheritance rich in wilderness values and natural resources--and still victimized by misunderstanding and neglect. For the first time in a single book, the whole story of the public domain is told in a narrative as timely as it is enlivened by history--from the land speculations of George Washington and his contemporaries to the real-estate boondoggles of today; from the pre-emption movement of the 1830s to the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, from the 90 million acres given away to railroads in the 1860s and 1870s to the millions of acres now being maimed by dune buggies, trail bikes, and other off-road vehicles; from the cynical distortion of such well-intentioned land laws as the Homestead Act of 1862 to the curious grazing practices of modern stockmen; from nineteenth-century entrepreneurs, who mortgaged the public domain in the name of greed to twentieth-century engineers who would pockmark it with strip mines in the name of energy; from the creation of the national forest system in the 1890s to land-reform legislation under consideration by Congress in the spring of 1975. Written by historian and environmental writer T. H. Watkins, based on more than twenty years of research and investigation by conservationist Charles S. Watson, Jr., and illustrated with more than 70 pages of historical and modern photographs, [this book] places the past at the service of the present, and in the process illuminates a nearly unknown part of the American landscape. Above all, this book makes it clear that if we allow history to repeat itself, if we do not move soon to give the public domain the first intelligent management program it has ever known, we will have squandered the largest part of what we have left to give to those who must follow us."--Dust jacket.
America S Land And Its Uses
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Author : Marion Clawson
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 1972
America S Land And Its Uses written by Marion Clawson and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Land categories.
This Land Is Our Land
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Author : Ken Ilgunas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-04-10
This Land Is Our Land written by Ken Ilgunas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Political Science categories.
Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s public lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few. Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces. Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly—from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.