Properties of Empire : : Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier / / Ian Saxine.
A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together in surprising ways to preserve Indigenous territory.Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turb...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Places ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 10 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Wabanaki Glossary
- Names, Places, and Dates
- Introduction: Power and Property
- 1 Networks of Property and Belonging: Land Use in the Seventeenth Century
- 2 Dawnland Encounters, 1600–1713
- 3 Land Claims, 1713–1722
- 4 Breaking—and Making—the Peace, 1722–1727
- 5 In Defiance of the Proprietors, 1727–1735
- 6 The Rightful Owners Thereof, 1735–1741
- 7 Troubled Times, 1741–1752
- 8 Contrary to Their Own Laws, 1749–1755
- Conclusion. Treaties Buried and Lost: Indigenous Rights and Colonial Property since 1755
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author