Author: J. B. HARRISONPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Universalist Quarterly and General Review
Author: How the Indians Lost Their Land
Author: Stuart BannerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674261909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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? Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced. This story of America's colonization remains a story of power, but a more complex kind of power than historians have acknowledged. It is a story in which military force was less important than the power to shape the legal framework within which land would be owned. As a result, white Americans--from eastern cities to the western frontiers--could believe they were buying land from the Indians the same way they bought land from one another. How the Indians Lost Their Land dramatically reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past.
Then and Now
Author: Margaret Jefferys HobartPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Catholic World
Author: Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Report of the State Librarian to the Legislature of Pennsylvania
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description