How the Indians Lost Their Land Law and Power on the Frontier

Name: How the Indians Lost Their Land Law and Power on the Frontier
Price: 21.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780674023963

ISBN-10: 067402396X

ISBN-13: 9780674023963

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stuart Banner

List price: $32.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $30.07

Marketplace

3 new & used from $21.92

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Stuart Banner is Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.



Introduction



Native Proprietors



Manhattan for Twenty-four Dollars



From Contract to Treaty



A Revolution in Land Policy



From Ownership to Occupancy



Removal



Reservations



Allotment


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index