Frances Wilson

What does ownership of land really mean?

The passion for proprietorship has led to the loss of countless lives over the centuries and the dispossession of those for whom the concept was meaningless

Native Americans approach, in 1820, to inspect the tiny settlement that would become Chicago. Credit: Getty Images

  • Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

    Simon Winchester

    William Collins, pp. 464, £25

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