How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

by Stuart Banner

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Between the early 17th Century and the early 20th, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways - as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?
  • ISBN10 0674018710
  • ISBN13 9780674018716
  • Publish Date 1 October 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 December 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint The Belknap Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 364
  • Language English