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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Property And Dispossession : Natives Empires And Land In Early Modern North America by Allan Greer
Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France Canada, New Spain Mexico, and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of property formation to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continents resources, extended the reach of empire, and established states and jurisdictions for themselves. Challenging long-held, binary assumptions of property as a single entity, which various groups did or did not possess, Greer highlights the diversity of indigenous and Euro-American property systems in the early modern period. The books geographic scope, comparative dimension, and placement of indigenous people on an equal plane with Europeans makes it unlike any previous study of early colonization and contact in the Americas.show more