Land rights, ethno-nationality, and sovereignty in history / / edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.46; 333.3
• Soggetto topico: Colonization - History; Land tenure - History
• Altri autori: EngermanStanley L MetzerJacob
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality,and Sovereignty in History; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; PART I Setting the stage; 1 Some considerations of ethno-nationality (and other distinctions), property rights in land, and territorial sovereignty; PART II Nations, land regime, and territorial sovereignty in old and new states; 2 Were there alternatives to disaster? The removal of Indians from the southeastern United States in the 1830s ; 3 Ethno-nationality and property rights in land in Prussian Poland, 1886-1918: buying the land from under the Poles' feet?4 Jewish land - Israel lands: ethno-nationality and land regime in Zionism and in Israel, 1897-1967; 5 Markets and meanings: nationalism, land, and property in Lithuania; PART III Religion, ethno-nationality, and economics in land struggles; 6 Irish agriculture after the Land War; 7 Land disputes and ethno-politics: northwestern Anatolia, 1877-1912; PART IV Indigenous peoples, colonial settlers, and migrating laborers: ethnic rivalries and rights to land, past and present ; 8 Explaining divergence in property rights: Fiji and Hawai'i in the nineteenth century9 Equals in Markets? Land property rights and ethnicity in Fiji and Sri Lanka; 10 Indigenous accumulation and the question of land: the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the second half of the twentieth century; 11 Sub-Saharan Africa: land rights and ethno-national consciousness in historically land-abundant economies; 12 Ethnic competition and claims to land in South Africa: the Kat River valley, Eastern Cape ; PART V Natural resources and the livelihood of native populations: economy and environment in tradition and modernity13 Survival through generosity: property rights and hunting practices of Native Americans in the subarctic region; 14 Owners, intruders, and intermediaries: the claim for lands within the Mbyá-Guaraní community (Valley of Cuñapirú, Misiones, Argentina); 15 Establishing territorial sovereignty in Finland: the environmental consequences of ethno-nationalization of resource management in Inari; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications.The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and
• Titolo autorizzato: Land rights, ethno-nationality, and sovereignty in history
• ISBN: 1-134-35745-1; 1-134-35746-X; 1-280-07845-6; 0-203-07371-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783895103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 25.