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Author Mitchell, John Hanson

Title Trespassing : an inquiry into the private ownership of land / John Hanson Mitchell
Published Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, 2015

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Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Players; Prologue; ONE: A Certain Tract of Land; TWO: Owners and Outcasts; THREE: Should Trees Have Standing?; FOUR: The Cords of Christ's Tent; FIVE: To Have and to Hold; SIX: Common Ground; SEVEN: Cross-Lot Walking; EIGHT: Terra Nullius; NINE: Holding Ground; TEN: Out of the Quiver of the Scriptures; ELEVEN: The Last of the Commons; TWELVE: Islands of the Dead; THIRTEEN: Who Really Owns North America?; FOURTEEN: The Tawny Vermin; FIFTEEN: Their Heirs and Assigns Forever
SIXTEEN: The Intelligence of SalamandersSEVENTEEN: The Landing; EIGHTEEN: Drawn and Quartered; Epilogue
Summary An exploration of the various systems of land control and the evolution of private property
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Subject Right of property -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History
Commons -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY / General
Commons
Land tenure -- Law and legislation
Right of property
Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611687750
1611687756
1611687195
9781611687194