{"product_id":"translating-property-the-maxwell-land-grant-and-the-conflict-over-land-in-the-american-west-1840-1900-hardcover","title":"Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria E. Montoya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe meet Jicarilla Apaches, whose identity is rooted in a sense of place; Mexican governors and hacienda patrons 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a very important and timely contribution to the historiography of the American West. It is a splendid study of the role of U.S. courts in consolidating colonialism, explicated through highly textured and nuanced narrative, and supported by reams of fastidious historical research. Translating Property is one of the finest examples of historical prose I have read, extending our understanding of the racial and gender aspects of law. This is the historian's craft at its best.--Ramón Gutiérrez, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and important contribution to the history of the American West and to Chicano History, both in situating the land grant and its people in the context of the rise of global capitalism and European imperialism, and in recognizing the complexity and multiplicity of ethnic and racial divisions and unities--Sarah Deutsch, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston\u003c\/i\u003e (1870-1940) and \u003ci\u003eNo Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e (1880-1940)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a very important and timely contribution to the historiography of the American West. It is a splendid study of the role of U.S. courts in consolidating colonialism, explicated through highly textured and nuanced narrative, and supported by reams of fastidious historical research. Translating Property is one of the finest examples of historical prose I have read, extending our understanding of the racial and gender aspects of law. This is the historian's craft at its best.--Ramón Gutiérrez, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTranslating Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and important contribution to the history of the American West and to Chicano History, both in situating the land grant and its people in the context of the rise of global capitalism and European imperialism, and in recognizing the complexity and multiplicity of ethnic and racial divisions and unities\"--Sarah Deutsch, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston\u003c\/i\u003e (1870-1940) and \u003ci\u003eNo Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e (1880-1940)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaría E. Montoya \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 315\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.09 x 9.32 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026770575535,"sku":"9780520227446","price":107.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/7314\/1679\/files\/GpeFvBMLYD9780520227446.webp?v=1781265343","url":"https:\/\/valuevaultclub.myshopify.com\/products\/translating-property-the-maxwell-land-grant-and-the-conflict-over-land-in-the-american-west-1840-1900-hardcover","provider":"Value Vault Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}