Properties of Empire by Ian Saxine HARDBACK 9781479832125

Properties of Empire\nby Ian Saxine\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ian Saxine\nTitle: Properties of Empire\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: New York University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781479832125\nISBN-10: 147983212X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together\nProperties of Empire shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain's empire, and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights.\nAs absentee land speculators and hardscrabble colonists squabbled over conflicting v.