Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska

by Stuart Banner

Book Overview

During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And certain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026128
• ISBN13: 9780674026124
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"