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Translating property : (Record no. 76534)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2004030866
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0700613811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780700613816 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)57432145
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 978.9 Mon
Item number 48
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 978.9 Mon
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Montoya, Maria E.,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Translating property :
Remainder of title the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 /
Statement of responsibility, etc Maria E. Montoya.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Lawrence, Kan. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc University Press of Kansas,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 299 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes Index and Bibliography
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Contested boundaries -- Regulating land, labor, and bodies : Mexican married women, peones, and the remains of feudalism -- From hacienda to colony -- Prejudice, confrontation, and resistance : taking control of the grant -- The law of the land : U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company -- The legacy of land grants in the American West.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense, struggles no less painful because they take place mainly in the courtroom rather than in the field. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. The Southwest has been and continues to be the scene of a collision between land regimes with radically different cultural conceptions of the land's purpose." "We meet Jicarilla Apaches whose identity is rooted in a sense of place; Mexican governers and hacienda patrones seeking status as New World feudal magnates; "rings" of greedy territorial politicians on the make; women finding their own way in a man's world; Anglo homesteaders looking for a place to settle in the American West; and Dutch investors in search of gargantuan returns on their capital. The European and American newcomers all "mistranslated" the prior property regimes into new rules to their own advantage and the disadvantage of those who had lived on the land before them. Their efforts to control the Maxwell Land Grant by wrapping it in their own particular myths of law and custom inevitably led to conflict and even violence as cultures and legal regimes clashed. With transformations of the property systems came huge changes for those already living on the grant. At each stage in this history, the previous occupants resisted, accomodated, and in some cases were removed from the place they had called their home." "Maria E. Montoya explores all the battles - legal, political, cultural, and violent - that swept across the territory as New Mexico was drawn into the modern industrial and market systems of the eastern United States and Europe."--Jacket.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 92528
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Land tenure
Geographic subdivision New Mexico
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.)
General subdivision History.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name New Mexico
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1848-
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name New Mexico
General subdivision Race relations.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type sw 900 - 999
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out
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