Proving up
Subtitle: domesticating land in U.S. history
By: Lisi Krall.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438430799
Subjects: Land use, Rural -- United States -- History; Land reform -- United States -- History; Public lands -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Jefferson's agrarian vision and the changing nature of property; title: The dialectics of government land policy (1785-1862); title: The dialectics of government land policies on arid land; title: Multidimensional land; title: Wilderness.