Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world

Prologue: Uncommon ground. Transaction ; Foundation ; Population ; Exploitation ; Demarcation, eviction, possession ; Exploration -- Part I: Borderlines. When the worm forgave the plough ; The size of all the Earth ; Just where is everything ; At the edges of world ; Drawing a distinction -- Part II: Annals of acquisition. Up and out and on the level ; Islands of the damned ; Red territory ; The land and the gentry -- Part III: Stewardship. The tragedies of improvement ; The accumulations of space ; Going nowhere and everywhere ; The world made wild again ; On wisdom, down under ; Parks, recreation, and plutonium -- Part IV: Battlegrounds. The dreary steeples ; The unholy land ; Death on the rich black earth ; Concentration and confiscation -- Part V: Annals of restoration. Māori in Arcady ; Strangers in the Hebrides ; Bringing Africa home ; Aliens in wonderland ; Trust is everything -- Epilogue: Yet now the land is drowning.