LEADER 04811nam 22007334a 450 001 9910455112603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02052-9 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020528 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786962 035 $a(dli)HEB30948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224770 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11910949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224770 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230908 035 $a(PQKB)10367154 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300091 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300091 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312796 035 $a(OCoLC)923109197 035 $a(DE-B1597)574399 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020528 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786962 100 $a20070323d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPossessing the Pacific$b[electronic resource] $eland, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska /$fStuart Banner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 388 p. ) $cill., maps ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-02612-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [323]-380) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tMap -- $tIntroduction: The Pacific World and Its Atlantic Antecedents -- $t1 Australia: Terra Nullius by Design -- $t2 New Zealand: Conquest by Contract -- $t3 New Zealand: Conquest by Land Tenure Reform -- $t4 Hawaii: Preparing To Be Colonized -- $t5 California: Terra Nullius by Default -- $t6 British Columbia: Terra Nullius as Kindness -- $t7 Oregon and Washington: Compulsory Treaties -- $t8 Fiji and Tonga: The Importance of Indigenous Political Organization -- $t9 Alaska: Occupancy and Neglect -- $tConclusion: What Produced Colonial Land Policy? -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aDuring the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And certain indigenous peoples benefit from treaty rights, while others do not. These variations are traceable to choices made more than a century ago--choices about whether indigenous people were the owners of their land and how that land was to be transferred to whites. Banner argues that these differences were not due to any deliberate land policy created in London or Washington. Rather, the decisions were made locally by settlers and colonial officials and were based on factors peculiar to each colony, such as whether the local indigenous people were agriculturalists and what level of political organization they had attained. These differences loom very large now, perhaps even larger than they did in the nineteenth century, because they continue to influence the course of litigation and political struggle between indigenous people and whites over claims to land and other resources. Possessing the Pacific is an original and broadly conceived study of how colonial struggles over land still shape the relations between whites and indigenous people throughout much of the world. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aLand settlement$zOceania$xHistory 606 $aLand settlement$zNorthwest, Pacific$xHistory 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xLand tenure$zOceania$xHistory 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xLand tenure$zNorthwest, Pacific$xHistory 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xLegal status, laws, etc$zOceania$xHistory 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xLegal status, laws, etc$zNorthwest, Pacific$xHistory 607 $aOceania$xColonization$xHistory 607 $aNorthwest, Pacific$xColonization$xHistory 607 $aOceania$xRace relations 607 $aNorthwest, Pacific$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLand settlement$xHistory. 615 0$aLand settlement$xHistory. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xLand tenure$xHistory. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xLand tenure$xHistory. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 676 $a325/.3091823 700 $aBanner$b Stuart$f1963-$0281269 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455112603321 996 $aPossessing the Pacific$92312539 997 $aUNINA