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1 online resource. |
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Treaties language |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Early American places
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Early American places.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Properties of empire -- 1. Networks of property and belonging. Land use in the 17th century -- 2. Dawnland encounters, 1600-1713 -- 3. Land claims, 1713-1722 -- 4. Breaking-and making-the peace, 1722-1727 -- 5. In defiance of the proprietors, 1722-1727 -- 6. The rightful owners thereof, 1735-1741 -- 7. Troubled times, 1741-1752 -- 8. Contrary to their own laws, 1749-1755 -- Conclusion. Treaties buried and lost. Indigenous rights and colonial property since 1755. |
| Summary |
A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together in surprising ways to preserve Indigenous territory. Properties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain's empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights. As absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting visions for the frontier, Wabanaki Indians' unity allowed them to forcefully project their own interpretations of often poorly remembered old land deeds and treaties. The result was the creation of a system of property in Maine that defied English law, and preserved Native power and territory. Eventually, ordinary colonists, dissident speculators, and grasping officials succeeded in undermining and finally destroying this arrangement, a process that took place in councils and courtrooms, in taverns and treaties, and on battlefields. Properties of Empire challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America, as well as the fixed nature of Indian "sales" of land, revealing the existence of a prolonged struggle to re-interpret seventeenth-century land transactions and treaties well into the eighteenth century. The ongoing struggle to construct a commonly agreed-upon culture of landownership shaped diplomacy, imperial administration, and matters of colonial law in powerful ways, and its legacy remains with us today |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abenaki Indians -- Land tenure -- Maine.
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Abenaki Indians. |
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Land tenure. |
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Maine. |
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Abenaki Indians -- Maine -- Treaties.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Maine.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples. |
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Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) |
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Indiens d'Amerique -- États-Unis -- 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) |
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Abenaki (Indiens) -- Traites -- États-Unis -- Maine (États-Unis) |
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Abenaki (Indiens) -- Terres -- États-Unis -- Maine (États-Unis) |
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Indiens d'Amerique -- Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux -- États-Unis -- Maine (États-Unis) |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1775 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Treaties.
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Treaties.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saxine, Ian. Properties of empire. New York : New York University Press, [2019] (DLC) 2018041757 |
| ISBN |
9781479860524 (electronic book) |
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1479860522 (electronic book) |
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9781479832125 |
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147983212X |
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