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Title: | Deeds, Titles, and Changing Concepts of Land Rights: Colonial Innovations and Their Impact on Social Thought | Contributor(s): | Ress, David (author) | Publication Date: | 2020 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-64191-7 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30174 | Abstract: | This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system title registration – a process that would be widely adopted in British and American colonies as a particularly effective way of guaranteeing absolute ('fee simple') ownership over indigenous peoples’ land. This book explores the similarities between these two record systems, highlighting how similar settlement patterns and religious beliefs in both places focused attention on recording land tenure, and illustrating how these record systems encouraged new ways of thinking about rights to and on land. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | Place of Publication: | Cham, Switzerland | ISBN: | 9783030641917 9783030641900 |
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) 210312 North American History |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430302 Australian history 430321 North American history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | WorldCat record: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1238200239 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1201378826 |
Extent of Pages: | 115 |
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Appears in Collections: | Book School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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