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The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900 / John C. Weaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weaver, John C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right of property--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Right of property.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Land tenure--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Land tenure.
- Land tenure--Colonies.
- Land settlement--Colonies--Great Britain--History.
- Land settlement.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States.
- Territorial expansion.
- Colonization--History.
- Colonization.
- Physical Description:
- x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and an analysis of its effects on indigenous peoples, the growth of property rights, and the evolution of ideas that make up the foundation of the modern world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Arranging New Worlds 3
- Part 1 Scanning the Horizon
- 1 Concepts: Empires and Perspectives on Land 11
- 2 Property Rights: Origins, Organization, and Rationales 46
- 3 Parameters: Places, Shapes, Scale, and Velocity 88
- Part 2 An Appetite for Land
- 4 Acquisition: Uprooting Native Title 133
- 5 Allocation by Rank: Landed Estates and Citizen Speculators 178
- 6 Allocation by Market: The Geometry and Ledgers of Assurance 216
- 7 Allocation by Initiative: Landhunters, Squatters, Grazers 264
- Part 3 Reapportioning the Pieces
- 8 Reallocation: Breaking Up Big Estates and Squeezing Margins 311
- Epilogue: The Modern World Surveyed 348.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773525270
- OCLC:
- 51242868
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