The region is one of the central political concepts in the modern world. Indeed, jobs are the basic way in which the world is divided and politically controlled.

However, land has not received much attention to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights and justice. While territories remain politically important and regional conflicts and conflicts are being studied in detail, the concept of the territory itself is often neglected today.

Where did the notion of exclusive possession of a part of the Earth's surface come from, and what kinds of complexities were hidden behind that clear definition? The birth of the province provides a detailed account of the emergence of a territory within Western political thought. Given the antiquity, medieval, Renaissance and early modern thought, Stuart Elden examines the evolution of the concept of land from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we came to our contemporary understanding.

Elden deals with a range of historical, political and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players - historians, poets, philosophers, theologians and secular political theorists - highlighting the way the world came. To be arranged and how the earth's surface is divided, controlled and managed..