Federal ground : governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories /
Federal Ground shows how the federal government gained authority in a borderland that many groups made their own claims to control. Although on paper the federal government enjoyed almost exclusive control over the territories, it actually gained authority because territorial residents wanted things...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Oxford legal history series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Federal Ground shows how the federal government gained authority in a borderland that many groups made their own claims to control. Although on paper the federal government enjoyed almost exclusive control over the territories, it actually gained authority because territorial residents wanted things from this new federal government - confirmation of rights to land, to jurisdiction, to money. Often, those residents - Native peoples, Anglo-American settlers, French villagers - were able to successfully exploit the federal government. But they became increasingly reliant on that government in the. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on electronic resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 4, 2021). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : color maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190905719 9780190905729 0190905727 9780190905712 |