land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska /
Stuart Banner.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
1 online resource (vi, 388 pages) :
illustrations, maps
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-380) and index.
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?
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Possessing the Pacific.
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Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure-- Northwest, Pacific-- History.
Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure-- Oceania-- History.
Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Northwest, Pacific-- History.
Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Oceania-- History.
Land settlement-- Northwest, Pacific-- History.
Land settlement-- Oceania-- History.
Colonization.
Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure.
Indigenous peoples-- Legal status, laws, etc.
Land settlement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.