Possessing the Pacific : : Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska /

Possessing the Pacific : : Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska / / Stuart Banner.

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During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, Calif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Banner, Stuart,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Map
  • Introduction: The Pacific World and Its Atlantic Antecedents
  • 1 Australia: Terra Nullius by Design
  • 2 New Zealand: Conquest by Contract
  • 3 New Zealand: Conquest by Land Tenure Reform
  • 4 Hawaii: Preparing To Be Colonized
  • 5 California: Terra Nullius by Default
  • 6 British Columbia: Terra Nullius as Kindness
  • 7 Oregon and Washington: Compulsory Treaties
  • 8 Fiji and Tonga: The Importance of Indigenous Political Organization
  • 9 Alaska: Occupancy and Neglect
  • Conclusion: What Produced Colonial Land Policy?
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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