Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index. |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Contested Boundaries -- 2. Regulating Land, Labor, and Bodies: Mexican Married Women, Peones, and the Remains of Feudalism -- 3. From Hacienda to Colony -- 4. Prejudice, Confrontation, and Resistance: Taking Control of the Grant -- 5. The Law of the Land: U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company -- 6. The Legacy of Land Grants in the American West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.) -- History.
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New Mexico -- History -- 1848-
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New Mexico. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
1848- |
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New Mexico -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Land tenure -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century.
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Land tenure. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
United States -- Maxwell Land Grant. |
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HISTORY -- State & Local. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
Chronological Term |
Since 1800 |
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Humaniora Historie. |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Translating property Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520227441 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2001027677 |
ISBN |
9780520926486 ebook |
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052092648X |
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0520227441 alkaline paper |
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1597349623 |
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9781597349628 |
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9780520227446 (alkaline paper) |
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0520227441 |
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0585466408 |
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9780585466408 |
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