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Conquest by law : how the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands / Lindsay G. Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Lindsay Gordon, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies--Trials, litigation, etc.
- United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
- United States. Supreme Court--History.
- United States.
- Indians of North America--Land tenure--United States--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian land transfers--United States--History.
- Indian land transfers.
- Land titles--Illinois--History.
- Land titles.
- Land titles--Indiana--History.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An investigation into the legal basis of land claims in the United States, this volume uses the archives of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies to illustrate how a doctrine that discovery created a right of ownership became enshrined in U.S. law & turned indigenous peoples from owners into tenants.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 The Illinois and Wabash Land Companies: Purchases and Petitions; CHAPTER 2 Harper; CHAPTER 3 Before the Court; CHAPTER 4 Virginia, Kentucky, and the Complex Politics of Early Republican Federalism; CHAPTER 5 The Opinion; CHAPTER 6 Legacies; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX 1 The 1810 Memorial; APPENDIX 2 The Agreed Statement of Facts and Objections to the Claims; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771870-1
- 0-19-988199-5
- 0-19-531489-1
- 1-4237-3373-8
- 1-60256-797-2
- 0-19-803394-X
- 9786610481866
- 1-280-48186-2
- OCLC:
- 922952648
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