Translating property
Subtitle: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900
By: María E. Montoya.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Land tenure -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century.; Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.) -- History.; New Mexico -- History -- 1848-; New Mexico -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION I; title: 1.CONTESTED BOUNDARIES 19; title: 2.REGULATING LAND, LABOR, AND BODIES: MEXICAN MARRIED WOMEN, PEONES, AND THE REMAINS OF FEUDALISM 46; title: 3.FROM HACIENDA TO COLONY 78; title: 4.PREJUDICE, CONFRONTATION, AND RESISTANCE: TAKING CONTROL OF THE GRANT 121; title: 5.THE LAW OF THE LAND: U.S. V. MAXWELL LAND GRANT COMPANY 157; title: 6.THE LEGACY OF LAND GRANTS IN THE AMERICAN WEST 191.