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03679aam a2200409 i 4500 001 02CC082C9F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 200701s2021 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020029865 020 $a 0190905697 020 $a 9780190905699 035 $a (OCoLC)1163932915 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d RCJ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d AOW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF5605 $b .A73 2021 100 1 $a Ablavsky, Gregory, $e author. 245 10 $a Federal ground : $b governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories / $c Gregory Ablavsky. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 350 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Oxford legal history series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Epilogue: $t Three systems. $t The land company experiment -- $t The rise of federal title -- $t Federal sovereignty -- $t Laws of war and peace -- $t Expenses of sovereignty -- $t Equal footing -- $g Epilogue: $t Three systems. 520 $a "Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Ohio and Tennessee: although new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Public lands $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Land tenure $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Land titles $z United States $x History. $x History. 650 7 $a Land tenure $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00991383 650 7 $a Land titles $x U.S. states. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00991459 650 7 $a Public lands. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01082573 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Oxford legal history series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210417031017.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02CC082C9F4311EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search