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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America

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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America - Greer, Allan
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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 ...

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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781316613696

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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107160644

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