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Property and dispossession : natives, empires and land in early modern North America
- Title
- Property and dispossession : natives, empires and land in early modern North America / Allan Greer, McGill University.
- Author
- Greer, Allan
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xviii, 450 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent's resources, extended the reach of empire, and established states and jurisdictions for themselves. Challenging long-held, binary assumptions of property as a single entity, which various groups did or did not possess, Greer highlights the diversity of indigenous and Euro-American property systems in the early modern period."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in North American Indian history
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in North American Indian history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: property and colonization -- Part I. Three zones of colonization -- Indigenous forms of property -- Early contacts -- New Spain -- New France -- New England -- Part II. Aspects of property formation -- The colonial commons -- Spaces of property -- A survey of surveying -- Empires and colonies -- Part III. Conclusion and epilogue -- Property and dispossession in an age of revolution.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3802
- ISBN
- 9781107160644
- 1107160642
- 9781316613696
- 1316613690
- LCCN
- 2017038384
- OCLC
- 1008767823
- Author
- Greer, Allan, author.
- Title
- Property and dispossession : natives, empires and land in early modern North America / Allan Greer, McGill University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in North American Indian historyCambridge studies in North American Indian history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3802