The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900 /

He also underscores the tragic history of the indigenous peoples of these regions and shoes how they came to lose "possession" of their land to newly formed governments made up of Europeans with European interests at heart. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and re...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, John C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Right of property > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Land tenure > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Land settlement > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Colonization > History.
Droit de propriété > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Propriété foncière > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Colonisation intérieure > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Colonisation > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Colonization
Territorial expansion
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Colonial question.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
Great Britain
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Scanning the Horizon
  • Concepts: Empires and Perspectives on Land
  • Property Rights: Origins, Organization, and Rationales
  • Parameters: Places, Shapes, Scale, and Velocity
  • An Appetite for Land
  • Acquisition: Uprooting Native Title
  • Allocation by Rank: Landed Estates and Citizen Speculators
  • Allocation by Market: The Geometry and Ledgers of Assurance
  • Allocation by Initiative: Landhunters, Squatters, Grazers
  • Reapportioning the Pieces
  • Reallocation: Breaking Up Big Estates and Squeezing Margins
  • The Modern World Surveyed
  • Notes
  • Index

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