Squatter's Republic

by Tamara Venit Shelton

Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age--and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was a squatter's republic--a society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520289099
• ISBN13: 9780520289093
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"