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BL
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| Record Number
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630141
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| Main Entry
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Mackin, Anne
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| Title & Author
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Americans and their land : : the house built on abundance /\ Anne Mackin
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, c2006
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xi, 251 p. :: maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0472115561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index
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| Contents
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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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Land use-- United States-- History
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Land tenure-- United States-- History
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Democracy-- United States-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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333.30973
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| LC Classification
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HD191.M33 2006
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HD191.M33 2006
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