Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:The relentless business of treaties : how indigenous land became US property / Martin Case.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:Case, Martin, 1957- author.
  
• Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2018]
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: E98.T75 C37 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians--Treaties.
  Indians--Land tenure.
  Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.
  Indians of North America--Government relations--1869-1934.
  United States--Territorial expansion.
  
• Genre/Form:Treaties.
  
• Description:215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:The United States was the first country to be founded with private property as an organizing principle. The westward growth of the U.S.--the business of territory making--was essentially the expansion of a system of property. This required supplanting any other relationships to the landscape, not on an individual level, but as an organizing principle. The U.S. enterprise was so successful that today it can be difficult for Americans to think of land as anything other than real estate. This book explores how making treaties for land cessions with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the land and became a profitable family business--for speculators, traders, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781681340906 paperback alkaline paper
  1681340909 paperback alkaline paper
  9781681340913 electronic book
  1681340917 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Speculators
  Territory: 1783
  1800
  Signers: A Speculative Enterprise
  2. Traders
  Territory: 1800
  1812
  Signers: Trade and Trust
  3. Men of Industry
  Territory: 1813
  1829
  Signers: The Machines
  4. Political and Personal Boundaries
  Territory: 1830
  1838
  Signers: Who Are Your People?
  5. Bureaucrats
  Territory: 1838
  1848
  Signers: Officers and Officeholders
  6. Mythmakers
  Territory: 1849
  1858
  Signers: Making History.