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Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr on Demand, 1996. 212pp including index Maps Photographs. First Thus. Glossy Soft Cover. As New.
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- Keywords Land Tenure United States Land Use Real Property
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University of California Press, 1996. Revised ed. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhereâfrom suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor.Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature.Beginning along the Missouri River, Steinberg recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. Then he travels to Louisiana, where an army of lawyers butted heads over whether Six Mile Lake was actually a lake or a…
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