Empire by treaty : negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
2015
K3375 .E48 2015 (Map It)
Available at Cellar
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS |
Items
Details
Title
Empire by treaty : negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
Published
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Call Number
K3375 .E48 2015
ISBN
9780199391783 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0199391785 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0199391785 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)880960098
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Added Author
Table of Contents
List of Maps
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
1.
The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty / Saliha Belmessous
1
2.
"Love Alone Is Not Enough": Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion / Arthur Weststeijn
19
3.
To "Clear the King's and Indians' Title": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties / Daniel K. Richter
45
4.
Struggling over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance Making in the Heartland of South America (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Tamar Herzog
78
5.
The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600--1867) / Alain Beaulieu
101
6.
A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth-Century India / Robert Travers
132
7.
Palavers and Treaty Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) / Rebecca Shumway
161
8.
The Tradition of Treaty Making in Australian History / Saliha Belmessous
186
9.
"A Text for Every Agitator amongst the Natives": Maori Property, Settler Politics, and the Maori Franchise in the 1850s / Damen Ward
214
10.
The "Lessons of History": The Ideal of Treaty in Settler Colonial Societies / Paul Patton
243
Contributors
271
Index
273