TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belmessous,Saliha
TI  - Empire by treaty: negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 
SN  - 9780199391783 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - K3375. E48 2015
U1  - 341.2/8 23
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Treaty-making power
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Claims
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Territorial expansion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments ; List of maps and illustrations ; 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty ; Saliha Belmessous ; 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion ; Arthur Weststeijn ; 3. To <"Clear the King's and Indians' Title>": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties ; Daniel Richter ; 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) ; Tamar Herzog ; 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) ; Alain Beaulieu ; 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India ; Robert Travers ; 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) ; Rebecca Shumway ; 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History ; Saliha Belmessous ; 9. <"A text for every agitator amongst the natives>": Maori property, settler politics and the Maori franchise in the 1850s ; Damen Ward ; 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies ; Paul Patton ; Contributors ; Index
ER  -