| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 299 p.) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Contested Boundaries -- 2. Regulating Land, Labor, and Bodies: Mexican Married Women, Peones, and the Remains of Feudalism -- 3. From Hacienda to Colony -- 4. Prejudice, Confrontation, and Resistance: Taking Control of the Grant -- 5. The Law of the Land: U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company -- 6. The Legacy of Land Grants in the American West -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Historie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Land tenure -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
|
|
HISTORY -- State & Local.
|
|
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
|
|
Land tenure
|
|
Race relations
|
|
Landrechten.
|
| SUBJECT |
Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.) -- History
|
|
New Mexico -- History -- 1848- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091370
|
|
New Mexico -- Race relations
|
| Subject |
New Mexico
|
|
United States -- Maxwell Land Grant
|
|
New Mexico.
|
|
Colorado (staat)
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2021696800 |
| ISBN |
9780520926486 |
|
052092648X |
|
1597349623 |
|
9781597349628 |
|
9780520227446 |
|
0520227441 |
|
0585466408 |
|
9780585466408 |
|
