Title Property and dispossession : natives, empires and land in early modern North America / Allan Greer, McGill University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 450 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Studies in North American Indian History Cambridge studies in North American Indian history. Contents Introduction: property and colonization -- Part I. Three zones of colonization -- Indigenous forms of property -- Early contacts -- New Spain -- New France -- New England -- Part II. Aspects of property formation -- The colonial commons -- Spaces of property -- A survey of surveying -- Empires and colonies -- Part III. Conclusion and epilogue -- Property and dispossession in an age of revolution Summary "Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent's resources, extended the reach of empire, and established states and jurisdictions for themselves. Challenging long-held, binary assumptions of property as a single entity, which various groups did or did not possess, Greer highlights the diversity of indigenous and Euro-American property systems in the early modern period. The book's geographic scope, comparative dimension, and placement of indigenous people on an equal plane with Europeans makes it unlike any previous study of early colonization and contact in the Americas."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- History Indian land transfers -- United States -- History Indians of North America -- Government relations. Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- Canada -- History Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- United States -- History Indian land transfers Indians of North America -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Land tenure United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316675908 1316675904

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