The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900 / / John C. Weaver

• Autore: Weaver John C
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 497 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 323.4/6/09171241
• Soggetto topico: Colonization - History; Land settlement - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Land tenure - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Right of property - Great Britain - Colonies - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Territorial expansion
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-468) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scanning the Horizon -- Concepts: Empires and Perspectives on Land -- Property Rights: Origins, Organization, and Rationales -- Parameters: Places, Shapes, Scale, and Velocity -- An Appetite for Land -- Acquisition: Uprooting Native Title -- Allocation by Rank: Landed Estates and Citizen Speculators -- Allocation by Market: The Geometry and Ledgers of Assurance -- Allocation by Initiative: Landhunters, Squatters, Grazers -- Reapportioning the Pieces -- Reallocation: Breaking Up Big Estates and Squeezing Margins -- The Modern World Surveyed -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: He also underscores the tragic history of the indigenous peoples of these regions and shoes how they came to lose "possession" of their land to newly formed governments made up of Europeans with European interests at heart. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and registering large numbers of newly carved-out parcels of property for reallocation during the Great Land Rush were instrumental in the emergence of much stronger concepts of property rights and argues that this period was marked by a complete disregard for previous notions of restraint on dreams of unlimited material possibility. Today, while the traditional forms of colonization that marked the Great Land Rush are no longer practiced by the European powers and their progeny in the new world, the legacy of this period can be seen in the western powers' insatiable thirst for economic growth, including newer forms of economic colonization of underdeveloped countries, and a continuing evolution of the concepts of property rights, including the development and increasing growth in importance of intellectual property rights.
• Titolo autorizzato: The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900
• ISBN: 1-282-86106-9; 9786612861062; 0-7735-7096-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783797703321
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