Bibliograph

Property and dispossession, natives, empires and land in early modern North America, Allan Greer, McGill University

Type

Label

Property and dispossession, natives, empires and land in early modern North America, Allan Greer, McGill University

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Property and dispossession

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1008767823

Responsibility statement

Allan Greer, McGill University

Series statement

Cambridge studies in North American Indian history

Sub title

natives, empires and land in early modern North America

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

Table Of 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

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