Properties of Empire
Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Benvenuto (Gratz College, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 733-733 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa365 |
| OpenAlex | W3113053095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Properties of Empire begins with a fascinating vignette that alludes to a much deeper history of indigenous rights. In 1736 a group of Penobscots (one of the nations of the Wabanki Confederacy) evicted a group of Scots-Irish colonists in present-day Maine, then known as the Dawnland. They did so, moreover, with the backing of colonial authorities from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who had a vested interest in recognizing Indian land rights. Referred to by the Wabanaki as the Bostoniak, this colonial elite comprised wealthy, large-scale proprietors whose landownership claims in the Dawnland depended on land deeds purchased in the seventeenth century from the Wabanaki. These absentee landowners out of Boston were often at odds with poor smallholders and tenants settling the area, including those colonists evicted by the Penobscots. Indeed, one of this book's best virtues is its critical disaggregation of New England's colonial society, reflecting internal class tensions
Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Elite · Empire · Ethnology · Frontier · Indigenous · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Speculation · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |