Possessing the Pacific : land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska /
Tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, and how the settlers acquired vast amounts of land from the indigenous people. This acquisition still shapes the relations between whites and indigenous...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Possessing the Pacific : |b land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska / |c Stuart Banner. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. : |b Harvard University Press, |c 2007. | ||
| 300 | |a vi, 388 p. : |b ill., maps, ports. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-380) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The Pacific World and Its Atlantic Antecedents -- 1. Australia: Terra Nullius by Design -- 2. New Zealand: Conquest by Contract -- 3. New Zealand: Conquest by Land Tenure Reform -- 4. Hawaii: Preparing To Be Colonized -- 5. California: Terra Nullius by Default -- 6. British Columbia: Terra Nullius as Kindness -- 7. Oregon and Washington: Compulsory Treaties -- 8. Fiji and Tonga: The Importance of Indigenous Political Organization -- 9. Alaska: Occupancy and Neglect -- Conclusion: What Produced Colonial Land Policy? | |
| 520 | |a Tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, and how the settlers acquired vast amounts of land from the indigenous people. This acquisition still shapes the relations between whites and indigenous people in most of the world. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Oceania |x Colonization |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Northwest, Pacific |x Colonization |x History. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Land settlement |z Northwest, Pacific |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |x Land tenure |z Oceania |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |x Land tenure |z Northwest, Pacific |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |x Legal status, laws, etc. |z Oceania |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |x Legal status, laws, etc. |z Northwest, Pacific |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Oceania |x Race relations. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Northwest, Pacific |x Race relations. | |
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