TY - BOOK ID - 77905084 TI - Translating property PY - 2002 SN - 052092648X 1597349623 9780520926486 9781597349628 9780520227446 0520227441 0585466408 9780585466408 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Land tenure KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - History KW - Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.) KW - New Mexico KW - Beaubien-Miranda Grant (N.M. and Colo.) KW - Miranda-Beaubien Grant (N.M. and Colo.) KW - Nuevo México KW - Nuevo Méjico KW - History. KW - Race relations. KW - Nuebo México KW - Departamento del Nuevo Mejico KW - american west. KW - chicano. KW - colonialism. KW - colorado. KW - ethnicity. KW - frontier. KW - history. KW - homestead act. KW - indigenous people. KW - indigenous rights. KW - land development. KW - land grant. KW - land rights. KW - legal history. KW - lucien maxwell. KW - mexican americans. KW - mexican governors. KW - mexican history. KW - mexico. KW - native american. KW - new mexico. KW - pioneers. KW - race. KW - settler colonialism. KW - settlers. KW - settling the west. KW - southwest. KW - squatters. KW - supreme court. KW - treaties. KW - treaty of guadalupe hidalgo. KW - us courts. KW - wild west. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77905084 AB - Although 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. We 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. ER -