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Author Mitchell, John Hanson.

Title Trespassing : an inquiry into the private ownership of land / John Hanson Mitchell.

Publication Info. 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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Language English.
Subject Right of property -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History.
Right of property.
Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town)
History.
Commons -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History.
Commons.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts -- Littleton (Town) -- History.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mitchell, John Hanson. Trespassing. Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, 2015 (DLC) 2014955379
ISBN 9781611687750 (electronic book)
1611687756 (electronic book)
1611687195
9781611687194
9781611687194 (paper ; alkaline paper)