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Book The Land of No Laws

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  • Author : Rosamond van der Linde
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-01-23
  • ISBN : 9781977703675
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book The Land of No Laws written by Rosamond van der Linde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after moving to the volcanic island of Saint Eustatius, Rosamond launched into her favorite mode - piano lessons. She was immediately arrested and threatened with deportation. These are the stories of the ups and downs from her thirty years spent living in the Caribbean.

Book The Laws and the Land

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  • Author : Daniel Rück
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2021-09-15
  • ISBN : 0774867469
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Laws and the Land written by Daniel Rück and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.

Book The Color of Law  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Download or read book The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America written by Richard Rothstein and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

Book The Lands No One Knows

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  • Author : Tom H. Watkins
  • Publisher : Random House (NY)
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Lands No One Knows written by Tom H. Watkins and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every American has a landed inheritance. It is the public domain--land owned and administered by the federal government and held in trust for the people of the United States, all of the people of the United States. Created in the years preceding and following the Revolutionary War and enlarged as America spread west from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, this national legacy at its greatest included more than two billion acres of land. Today [as of 1975], after two centuries of confusion, mismanagement, corruption, and abuse, 453 million acres still remain--an inheritance rich in wilderness values and natural resources--and still victimized by misunderstanding and neglect. For the first time in a single book, the whole story of the public domain is told in a narrative as timely as it is enlivened by history--from the land speculations of George Washington and his contemporaries to the real-estate boondoggles of today; from the pre-emption movement of the 1830s to the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, from the 90 million acres given away to railroads in the 1860s and 1870s to the millions of acres now being maimed by dune buggies, trail bikes, and other off-road vehicles; from the cynical distortion of such well-intentioned land laws as the Homestead Act of 1862 to the curious grazing practices of modern stockmen; from nineteenth-century entrepreneurs, who mortgaged the public domain in the name of greed to twentieth-century engineers who would pockmark it with strip mines in the name of energy; from the creation of the national forest system in the 1890s to land-reform legislation under consideration by Congress in the spring of 1975. Written by historian and environmental writer T. H. Watkins, based on more than twenty years of research and investigation by conservationist Charles S. Watson, Jr., and illustrated with more than 70 pages of historical and modern photographs, [this book] places the past at the service of the present, and in the process illuminates a nearly unknown part of the American landscape. Above all, this book makes it clear that if we allow history to repeat itself, if we do not move soon to give the public domain the first intelligent management program it has ever known, we will have squandered the largest part of what we have left to give to those who must follow us."--Dust jacket.

Book Wisconsin Session Laws

Download or read book Wisconsin Session Laws written by Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Mechanics and the World of Science

Download or read book English Mechanics and the World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terra Nullius

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  • Author : Sven Lindqvist
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Terra Nullius written by Sven Lindqvist and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sven Lindqvist travels 7,000 miles through Australia in search of places where belief in the rights of the white man and the annihilation of the "lower races" were put into practice. While Australia continues to reckon with its violent past - echoed in the United States' treatment of Native Americans and Europe's colonization of other continents - Lindqvist evokes a history in which young boys were kidnapped to dive for pearls, then whipped and abandoned when the bends ruined them for work; "half-caste" children were taken from their mothers; and natives were misdiagnosed with STDs, put in neck irons, and sent to internment camps on remote islands. Lindqvist also recalls the work of ethnologists who brought their own prejudices to bear in studying Aborigines as primitives close to the origins of civilization, later inspiring Freud and Durkheim. At the same time he describes a beautiful and strange land, sacred to the native people who had inhabited it for centuries and celebrated it in a long tradition on richly symbolic art." "Terra Nullius is the disturbing story of how "no man's land" became the province of the white man."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character

Download or read book Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conference on Revision of United States Mining Laws

Download or read book Conference on Revision of United States Mining Laws written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands. Special Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 24. Considers problems related to mining claim patents; withdrawal of public lands from mineral development; access to rights-of-way from mining claimants; and other issues involved in proposed revision of U.S. mining laws as they effect mining, livestock, and lumber industries, and wildlife conservation. Hearings were held in Spokane, Wash.

Book Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character  and Exhibiting the Entire Legislation of Congress Upon which the Public Land Titles in Each State and Territory Have Depended

Download or read book Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character and Exhibiting the Entire Legislation of Congress Upon which the Public Land Titles in Each State and Territory Have Depended written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

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  • Author : Victoria. Parliament
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1228 pages

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Victoria. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Analytical Digest of the Laws of the United States

Download or read book An Analytical Digest of the Laws of the United States written by Frederick Charles Brightly and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England

Download or read book The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England written by Sir Edward Coke and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Penal Laws Against the Irish Catholics

Download or read book A History of the Penal Laws Against the Irish Catholics written by Sir Henry Parnell and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Affairs  Laws and Treaties

Download or read book Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties written by and published by LLMC. This book was released on with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: