Americans and their land : the house built on abundance / Anne Mackin
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- 3840363
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- Mackin, Anne
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006
- xi, 251 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780472115563
- 0472115561
- Summary:
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"Why is land the key to American democracy? How can we protect our democracy as more people and industries compete more intensively for our remaining resources? Americans and Their Land begins an important, overdue discussion of these questions. Anne Mackin takes the reader story by story from frontier history to the present and shows how land shaped the American political landscape. She shows how our evolving traditions of apportioning resources have allowed diminished supplies to create our present, increasingly unequal society, and she asks how 300 million Americans living in the new American landscape of growing competition can better share those resources."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Perpetual growth in the land of abundance
- Land as property (colonial America: carving up heaven)
- Land : the early bird special
- "For the enriching of themselves"
- Home is where the regulations are
- "Another civil war"
- Land and well-being (early nationhood: from family farm to city)
- Owning Ohio
- Early Ohio and the fate of the family farm
- Cleveland : the industrial city
- Tom Johnson and Henry George
- A home of one's own
- The rising price of the American dream
- Land and enterprise (the late frontier: the race for resources)
- Land and livelihood in the West
- The Dakotas
- Watering the West
- Americans and their land.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index.
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