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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy | Status |
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| VC Waterfall | General Books | 000029155 | 323.4 WEA | 1 | On-Shelf Student |