TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ablavsky,Gregory
TI  - Federal ground: governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories 
T2  - Oxford legal history series
SN  - 9780190905729 (ebook) :
AV  - KF5605 .A73 2021
U1  - 346.73044 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Public lands
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Land titles
KW  - States
N1  - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Federal Ground shows how the federal government gained authority in a borderland that many groups made their own claims to control. Although on paper the federal government enjoyed almost exclusive control over the territories, it actually gained authority because territorial residents wanted things from this new federal government - confirmation of rights to land, to jurisdiction, to money. Often, those residents - Native peoples, Anglo-American settlers, French villagers - were able to successfully exploit the federal government. But they became increasingly reliant on that government in the process, couching their claims in the language of federal law and turning to federal officials to claim rights
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190905699.001.0001
ER  -