Dividing the land : early American beginnings of our private property mosaic
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Dividing the land : early American beginnings of our private property mosaic
（Geography research paper, no. 238）
University of Chicago Press, 1995
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Bibliography: p. 371-395
Includes index
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内容説明
Many property lines drawn in early America still survive today and continue to shape the landscape and character of the United States. In this study, Price examines the process by which land was divided into private property and distributed to settlers from the beginning of colonization to early nationhood. He covers most areas of the United States in which the initial division of land was controlled by colonial governments - the original 13 colonies and Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. By examining different land policies and the irregular pattern of property that resulted from them, Price chronicles the many ways colonies managed land to promote settlement, develop agriculture, defend frontiers, and attract investment. His analysis reveals as much about land-planning techiniques carried to America from Europe as innovations spurred by the circumstances of the new world. Price's analysis draws on his survey of property records from the first land plans in Virginia in 1607 to empresario grants in Texas in the 1820s.
This data allows him to identify regional differences in allocating land, assess the impact of land planning by historical figures like William Penn of Pennsylvania and Lord Baltimore of Maryland, and trace changes in patterns of land division and ownership through transfers of power among Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Mexico and the Republic of Texas.
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List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments I: Introduction 1: Framework of the Land II: The New England Region: Dividing Land by Townships 2: Beginnings: Communal Land Division 3: Diffusion of Townships 4: Tradition Recedes: Commercially Founded Towns III: The South Atlantic Region: Land Division by Individual Choice 5: Colonial Beginnings 6: Control and Disposition of Land 7: Seventeenth-Century Land Division 8: Eighteenth-Century Colonial Land Division 9: Farms and Plantations in the Colonial South 10: The National Period IV: The Middle Atlantic Region 11: New York: The Dutch Period, 1624-64 12: New York's English and American Periods: Lordly Estates and Land Developers' Tracts 13: Land Division in New Jersey, and on the West Bank of the Delaware River up to 1682 14: Pennsylvania and Delaware: The Penn Proprietorship V: Louisiana and Texas: Land Division Initiated Under France and Spain 15: Louisiana Land Division Patterns 16: The Many Templates of Texas Land Division VI: Perspective 17: Summary, Conclusion, Aftermath App. A: Surveying and Property Boundaries App. B: Land Grant Maps App. C: Size Distribution Samples of Land Grants and Holdings from Selected Lists App. D: Geometric Analysis of Sample Properties Glossary Table of Measures Bibliography Index
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