Cover Image

Leveraging an empire : settler colonialism and the legalities of citizenship in the Pacific Northwest /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyler, Jacki Hedlund (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Citizenship > Oregon Territory > History.
Citizenship > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a colonial outpost
  • Oregon and the making of a settler colony in the Pacific Northwest
  • The dispossession of American Indians and the right to exist
  • Understanding immigration restrictions through arguments of slavery and labor
  • Incorporated definitions of land ownership
  • The privileged right to an education
  • Implications of citizenship in suffrage and naturalization laws
  • Conclusion : defiant subjects and their legacies.