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Empire by treaty : negotiating European expansion, 1600-1900 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.

Contributor(s): Belmessous, Saliha [editor.]Description: ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199391783 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199391785 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Colonies -- Law and legislation | Treaty-making power -- Europe -- History | Indigenous peoples -- Claims -- History | Europe -- Foreign relations -- Treaties | Europe -- Territorial expansion | Europe -- ColoniesDDC classification: 341.2/8 LOC classification: K3375. | E48 2015
Contents:
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
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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