Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840 - 1900 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840 - 1900 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

As new condition black linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. "Translating Property is a very important and timely contribution to the historiography of the American West. It is a splendid study of the role of U.S. courts in consolidating colonialism, explicated through highly textured and nuanced narrative and supported by reams of fastidious historical research. Translating Property is one of the finest examples of historical prose I have read, extending our understanding of the racial and gender aspects of law. This is the historian's craft at its best." - Ramon Gutierrez, author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away. 'Translating Property is a unique and important contribution to the history of the American West and to Chicano history, both in situating the land grant and its people in the context of the rise of global capitalism and European imperialism, and in recognizing the complexity and multiplicity of ethnic and racial divisions and unities." - Sarah Deutsch, author of No Separate Refuge. "Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense, struggles no less painful because they take place mainly in the courtroom rather than in the field. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. The Southwest has been and continues to be the scene of a collision between land regimes with radically different cultural conceptions of the land's purpose. We meet Jicarilla Apaches whose identity is rooted in a sense of place; Mexican governors and hacienda patrones seeking status as New World feudal magnates; "rings" of greedy territorial politicians on the make; women finding their own way in a man's world; Anglo homesteaders looking for a place to settle in the American West; and Dutch investors in search of gargantuan returns on their capital. The European and American newcomers all "mistranslated' the prior property regimes into new rules to their own advantage and to the disadvantage of those who had lived on the land before them. Their efforts to control the Maxwell Land Grant by wrapping it in their own particular myths of law and custom inevitably led to conflict and even violence as cultures and legal regimes clashed. With transformations of the property systems came huge changes for those already living on the grant. At each stage in this history, the previous occupants resisted, accommodated, and in some cases were removed from the place they had called their home. Maria E. Montoya skillfully explores all the battles - legal, political, cultural, and violent - that swept across the territory as New Mexico was drawn into the modern industrial and market systems of the eastern United States and Europe." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.…