The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900
by
 
Weaver, John C.

Title
The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900

Author
Weaver, John C.

ISBN
9780773531536
 
9780773525276

Personal Author
Weaver, John C.

Edition
1st pbk. ed.

Publication Information
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006, ©2003.

Physical Description
x, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
Empires and perspectives on land -- Property rights: origins, organisation and rationales -- Parameters: places, shapes, scale and velocity -- Acquisition: uprooting native title -- Allocation by rank: landed estates and citizen speculators -- Allocation by market: the geometry and ledgers of assurance -- Allocation by initiative: landhunters, squartters, grazers -- Reallocation: breaking up big estates and squeezing margins.

Subject Term
Right of property -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
 
Land tenure -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
 
Land settlement -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- History.
 
Colonization -- History.
 
Colonies -- America.
 
Droit de propriété -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
 
Propriété foncière -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
 
Colonisation intérieure -- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.
 
Autochtones -- Terres -- Histoire.
 
Colonisation -- Histoire.
 
Besitzrecht.
 
Demokratie.
 
Marktwirtschaft.
 
Kolonialismus.
 
Grundeigentum.

Geographic Term
United States -- Territorial expansion.
 
Europe -- Emigration and immigration.
 
États-Unis -- Expansion territoriale.
 
Europa.


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