Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banner, Stuart, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
Land settlement > Oceania > History.
Land settlement > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Oceania > History.
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Oceania > History.
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Colonisation intérieure > Océanie > Histoire.
Autochtones > Terres > Océanie > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Colonization
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc.
Land settlement
Race relations
Oceania > Colonization > History.
Northwest, Pacific > Colonization > History.
Oceania > Race relations.
Northwest, Pacific > Race relations.
Océanie > Colonisation > Histoire.
Océanie > Relations raciales.
Oceania
Pacific Northwest
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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