Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
Held at Newberry Library, Chicago Becca Gercken, ‘Manifest Meanings: The Selling (Not Telling) of American Indian History and the Case of “The Black Horse Ledger”‘, The American Indian Quarterly 34, 4 (2010) In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. What is the value or perceived necessity—for an Indian or […]
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J. P. Greene (ed.), Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area […]
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In 1637, the land that is now known as the town of Mystic, Connecticut was the site of a fierce battle between the Pequot Nation and English settlers resulted in an historic massacre that shaped future relations between Tribes and colonists. Today, researchers are combing the site with metal detectors and archaeological tools to unearth […]
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As many of you will know, in Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), Chief Justice John Marshall declares the sovereignty of the United States government over American Indian property. According to Marshall, the government had inherited this dominion from Great Britain, which had acquired it through the doctrine of “discovery.” The case granted American Indians a “right […]
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Lisi Krall, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010). Krall uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States. On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in Wyoming, was shot by his neighbor in a dispute […]
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Cole Harris, ‘The Spaces of Early Canada’, Canadian Historical Review 91, 4 (2010) Abstract: This article considers the relationship between the increasingly humanized spaces of early Canada and the patches of settlement that, at Confederation, were assembled into a country. It suggests that Harold Innis correctly identified some of the essential spaces of early Canada […]
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David Correia, ‘”Retribution Will Be Their Reward”: New Mexico’s Las Gorras Blancas and the Fight for the Las Vegas Land Grant Commons’, Radical History Review 108 (2010) This essay traces the struggle for the commons on New Mexico’s Las Vegas Land Grant, a community property claim in New Mexico. Following the U.S.–Mexican War, waves of […]
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An Imperial County Indian tribe has filed suit to stop a big solar project on which San Diego Gas & Electric is counting to get large amounts of green power. The Quechan Indian tribe filed suit in San Diego federal court Friday, seeking an injunction against the Imperial Valley Solar Project, one of the first […]
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Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘THE RULE OF LAW ON THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER’, Legal History 13 (2009): In the 1830s the British Colonial Office insisted that Aboriginal people be regarded as British Subjects in the hope that the ‘rule of law’ would provide them with protection against the excesses of the settlers. This paper […]
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Margaret D. Jacobs, ‘Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women’s History’, Pacific Historical Review 79, 4 (2010). For over three decades, western women’s historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women’s […]
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