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Leveraging an empire : settler colonialism and the legalities of citizenship in the Pacific Northwest / Jacki Hedlund Tyler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyler, Jacki Hedlund, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Oregon Territory--History.
- Citizenship.
- Citizenship--Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Leveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the developing region of Oregon through an evaluation of Oregon's exclusionary laws between the years 1841 and 1859"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a colonial outpost
- Oregon and the making of a settler colony in the Pacific Northwest
- The dispossession of American Indians and the right to exist
- Understanding immigration restrictions through arguments of slavery and labor
- Incorporated definitions of land ownership
- The privileged right to an education
- Implications of citizenship in suffrage and naturalization laws
- Conclusion : defiant subjects and their legacies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496227645
- 1496227646
- 9781496227669
- 1496227662
- OCLC:
- 1257706069
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