Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Scanning the Horizon
7. Concepts: Empires and Perspectives on Land 11
8. Property Rights: Origins, Organization, and Rationales 46
9. Parameters: Places, Shapes, Scale, and Velocity 88
10. An Appetite for Land
11. Acquisition: Uprooting Native Title 133
12. Allocation by Rank: Landed Estates and Citizen Speculators 178
13. Allocation by Market: The Geometry and Ledgers of Assurance 216
14. Allocation by Initiative: Landhunters, Squatters, Grazers 264
15. Reapportioning the Pieces
16. Reallocation: Breaking Up Big Estates and Squeezing Margins 311
17. The Modern World Surveyed 348
18. Notes 361
19. Index 469