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Property and Dispossession

Property and Dispossession

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Series: Studies in North American Indian History

Native American HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $39.00

ISBN10: 1316613690
ISBN13: 9781316613696
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 11 2018
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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. The book's geographic scope, comparative dimension, and placement of indigenous people on an equal plane with Europeans makes it unlike any previous study of early colonization and contact in the Americas.

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