How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Banner, Stuart
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Banner, Stuart

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States...
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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Banner, Stuart

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

$83.37
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Banner, Stuart

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

$83.37
Author: Stuart Banner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?

Stuart Banner provides the first comprehensive answer. He argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles. As whites' power grew, they were able to establish the legal institutions and the rules by which land transactions would be made and enforced.

This story of America's colonization remains a story of power, but a more complex kind of power than historians have acknowledged. It is a story in which military force was less important than the power to shape the legal framework within which land would be owned. As a result, white Americans--from eastern cities to the western frontiers--could believe they were buying land from the Indians the same way they bought land from one another. How the Indians Lost Their Land dramatically reveals how subtle changes in the law can determine the fate of a nation, and our understanding of the past.

Author: Stuart Banner
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.28w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780674023963

About the Author
Banner, Stuart: - Stuart Banner is Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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