Owning The Earth

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Owning The Earth

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Author : Andro Linklater
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-01

Owning The Earth written by Andro Linklater and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a result of the most creative - and, at the same time, destructive - cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. This notion laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership, and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.The seventeenth-century English surveyor William Petty was the first man to recognise the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky redistributed land in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after the Second World War to make possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies. Through the eyes of these remarkable individuals and many more, including Chinese emperors and German peasants, Andro Linklater here presents the evolution of land ownership to offer a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.

Measuring America

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Author : Andro Linklater
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-09-30

Measuring America written by Andro Linklater and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-30 with History categories.

In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.

A Little Piece Of Earth

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Author : Maria Finn
language : en
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Release Date : 2010

A Little Piece Of Earth written by Maria Finn and has been published by Universe Publishing(NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Container gardening categories.

Describes more than fifty projects for growing fruits, vegetables, and herbs in small spaces, whether a patio, rooftop, or windowsill; includes recipes and a list of other resources.

Scattered All Over The Earth

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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2022-03-10

Scattered All Over The Earth written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Fiction categories.

*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): 'homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. no time to learn three different languages. might mix up. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language most Scandinavian people understand'. Hiruko soon makes new friends to join her in her travels searching for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue: Knut, a graduate student in linguistics, who is fascinated by her Panska; Akash, an Indian man who lives as a woman, wearing a red sari; Nanook, an Eskimo from Greenland, first mistaken as another refugee from the land of sushi; and Nora, who works at the Karl Marx House in Trier. All these characters take turns narrating chapters, which feature an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra- nationalist named Breivik; Kakuzo robots; uranium; and an Andalusian bull fight. Episodic, vividly imagined and mesmerising, Scattered All Over the Earth is another sui generis masterwork by Yoko Tawada.

Punishment Earth

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Author : R. A. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Choose Your Own Adventure
Release Date : 2010

Punishment Earth written by R. A. Montgomery and has been published by Choose Your Own Adventure this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

(Ages 9-12) You are a young Orcan living on Planet Orca, where curiosity and exploration are punishable by exile. You are fascinated by your planet's secret off-limits Lost Region. When you're caught by the Elders they send you to a planet where curiosity is part of life: Earth.

The Earth Is Our Book

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Author : Natalia Lozovsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2000

The Earth Is Our Book written by Natalia Lozovsky and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

A fascinating study of early geographical knowledge

The Land Grabbers

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Author : Fred Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-05-29

The Land Grabbers written by Fred Pearce and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Social Science categories.

How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. The Land Grabbers is a first-of-its-kind exposé that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce’s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. Pearce’s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly “empty” land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts. Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet’s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.

Exiled To Earth

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Author : R. A. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Skylark
Release Date : 1989

Exiled To Earth written by R. A. Montgomery and has been published by Skylark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

After being caught exploring in a forbidden area, the reader and a friend are sentenced to exile on a small planet called Earth.

Living On The Earth

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Author : Alicia Bay Laurel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-23

Living On The Earth written by Alicia Bay Laurel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with categories.

Living Naturally and Practically in the 21st CenturyAlicia Bay Laurel's iconic Living on the Earth is finally back in print in a 50th anniversary edition, revised and updated with new material. This book hit the homesteading, back-to-earth crowd like a whirlwind in the 1970s and its elemental wisdom and advice hasn't diminished over the decades since. Widely acclaimed in such publications as The Village Voice and The Whole Earth Catalog-which stated "this may be the best book in the catalog"-Living on the Earth gives guidance on such things as: ·Backpacking·Making soap·Canning and drying·Herbal medicine·Gardening·First aid·Weaving and homemade dyes·Musical instruments·Making dress patternsAnd so much more-the variety of topics covered is astounding. Readers will be educated, enlightened and entertained perusing this landmark work.242 pages, original line illustrations throughout

Land How The Hunger For Ownership Shaped The Modern World

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Author : Simon Winchester
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2021-01-19

Land How The Hunger For Ownership Shaped The Modern World written by Simon Winchester and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.