How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.
How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.
How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N333.2/ 8
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. Native proprietors -- 2. Manhattan for twenty-four dollars -- 3. From contract to treaty -- 4. A revolution in land policy -- 5. From ownership to occupancy -- 6. Removal -- 7. Reservations -- 8. Allotment.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways - as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How d...
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How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N333.2/ 8
Record Identifier
74VKmMyE2xXg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmMyE2xXg
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ISBN
0674018710 (alk. paper)
9780674018716 (alk. paper)
DDC
333.2
MMS ID
991020520559702626
