How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the FrontierHarvard University Press, 2005. gada 25. okt. - 344 lappuses Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? |
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... conquest . Both views cannot be correct . How did Indians actually lose their Land ? Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer . He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal histo ...
... conquest ? Or does the truth lie somewhere in the middle ? And where exactly is the middle ? The answers to these questions are not simple . Even to say why they are not simple requires some explanation . Several years ago a student ...
... conquest is taking place ? Indeed , if land was cheap and conquest dangerous , wouldn't I prefer paying a little money to risking my life ? Could Anglo - Americans really have been so much bolder or more miserly in the past ? If ...
... conquest . The law of the past as recounted in court opinions , to pick another example , sometimes looks very different from the way it has been described by historians . I found myself wishing for a book that would synthesize all this ...
... conquest and contract is helpful , I think , in understanding how the Indians lost their land . At most times , and in most places , the Indians were not exactly conquered , but they did not exactly choose to sell their land either ...
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NATIVE PROPRIETORS | 10 |
MANHATTAN FOR TWENTYFOUR DOLLARS | 49 |
FROM CONTRACT TO TREATY | 85 |
A REVOLUTION IN LAND POLICY | 112 |
FROM OWNERSHIP TO OCCUPANCY | 150 |
REMOVAL | 191 |
RESERVATIONS | 228 |
ALLOTMENT | 257 |
EPILOGUE | 291 |
Notes | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 337 |
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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier Stuart Banner Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2007 |
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier Stuart BANNER Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2009 |
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