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governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories
1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : color maps.
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.
Introduction -- Sources of title in the territories -- The land company experiment -- The rise of federal title -- Federal sovereignty -- Laws of war and peace -- Expenses of sovereignty -- Equal footing -- Epilogue: Three systems.
Description based on electronic resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 4, 2021).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]