Translating property
Subtitle: the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900
By: María E. Montoya.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
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: Contested boundaries; title: Regulating land, labor, and bodies : Mexican married women, peones, and the remains of feudalism; title: From hacienda to colony; title: Prejudice, confrontation, and resistance : taking control of the grant; title: The law of the land : U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company; title: The legacy of land grants in the American West.