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):

Colonization--History.

Colonization.

Land settlement--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Land settlement.

Land tenure--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Land tenure.

Right of property--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Right of property.

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 497 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He also underscores the tragic history of the indigenous peoples of these regions and shoes how they came to lose "possession" of their land to newly formed governments made up of Europeans with European interests at heart. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and registering large numbers of newly carved-out parcels of property for reallocation during the Great Land Rush were instrumental in the emergence of much stronger concepts of property rights and argues that this period was marked by a complete disregard for previous notions of restraint on dreams of unlimited material possibility. Today, while the traditional forms of colonization that marked the Great Land Rush are no longer practiced by the European powers and their progeny in the new world, the legacy of this period can be seen in the western powers' insatiable thirst for economic growth, including newer forms of economic colonization of underdeveloped countries, and a continuing evolution of the concepts of property rights, including the development and increasing growth in importance of intellectual property rights.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Maps and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Scanning the Horizon

Concepts: Empires and Perspectives on Land

Property Rights: Origins, Organization, and Rationales

Parameters: Places, Shapes, Scale, and Velocity

An Appetite for Land

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, Squatters, Grazers

Reapportioning the Pieces

Reallocation: Breaking Up Big Estates and Squeezing Margins

The Modern World Surveyed

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-468) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86106-9

9786612861062

0-7735-7096-9

OCLC:

929120838