Trespassing by John Hanson Mitchell

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In this story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent US Supreme Court decisions, John Mitchell reviews the system of private ownership. He explores the theme through the story of Indians who were dispossessed and herded into a detention camp.

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Trespassing by John Hanson Mitchell

Trespassing, a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild land controlled periodically by various Native American tribes became British crown land after 1654, then private property under US law, and finally common land again in the late twentieth century. Mitchell considers every aspect of the important issue of land ownership and explores how our attitudes toward land have changed over the centuries.
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ISBN 13 9780201442144
ISBN 10 0201442140
Title Trespassing
Author John Hanson Mitchell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Year published 1998-05-01
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.