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Possessing the Pacific：land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Banner Stuart 1963-
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Land settlement > Oceania > History
Land settlement > Northwest, Pacific > History
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Oceania > History
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Northwest, Pacific > History
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Oceania > History
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > Northwest, Pacific > History
Kolonisatie
Grondbezit
Inheemse volken
Siedlung
Rechtsstatus
Ureinwohner
Grundeigentum
Oceanië
Noord-Amerika
Northwest, Pacific > Race relations
Oceania > Colonization > History
Northwest, Pacific > Colonization > History
Oceania > Race relations
Ozeanien
Pazifischer Ozean <Nordwest>
Carrier Form: vi, 388 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780674026124 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0674026128 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Index Number: K608
CLC: K608
K6
Call Number: K6/B219
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [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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