Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 299 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520227441
Content:
Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Contested Boundaries; 2 Regulating Land, Labor, and Bodies: Mexican Married Women, Peones, and the Remains of Feudalism; 3 From Hacienda to Colony; 4 Prejudice, Confrontation, and Resistance: Taking Control of the Grant; 5 The Law of the Land: U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company; 6 The Legacy of Land Grants in the American West; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520227446
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Translating Property : The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900
Language:
English
