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Empire by treaty : negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 /

'Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900' includes indigenous voices in the debate over European appropriation of overseas territories. It is concerned with European efforts to negotiate with indigenous peoples the cession of their sovereignty through treaties.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Belmessous, Saliha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Empire by Treaty""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty""; ""2 “Love Alone Is Not Enoughâ€?: Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion""; ""3 To “Clear the Kingâ€?s and Indiansâ€? Titleâ€?: Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties""; ""4 Struggling over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance Making in the Heartland of South America (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)""
  • ""5 The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600â€?1867)""""6 A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth-Century India""; ""7 Palavers and Treaty Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa)""; ""8 The Tradition of Treaty Making in Australian History""; ""9 “A Text for Every Agitator amongst the Nativesâ€?: MÄ?ori Property, Settler Politics, and the MÄ?ori Franchise in the 1850s""; ""10 The “Lessons of Historyâ€?: The Ideal of Treaty in Settler Colonial Societies""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""