TY - BOOK ID - 81168754 TI - Federal ground : governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories PY - 2021 SN - 0190905727 0190905700 0190905719 PB - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public lands KW - Land tenure KW - Land titles KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - States KW - Land-warrants KW - Titles, Land KW - Conveyancing KW - Deeds KW - Ejectment KW - Prescription (Law) KW - Vendors and purchasers 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 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81168754 AB - Federal Ground shows how the federal government gained authority in a borderland that many groups made their own claims to control. Although on paper the federal government enjoyed almost exclusive control over the territories, it actually gained authority because territorial residents wanted things from this new federal government - confirmation of rights to land, to jurisdiction, to money. Often, those residents - Native peoples, Anglo-American settlers, French villagers - were able to successfully exploit the federal government. But they became increasingly reliant on that government in the process, couching their claims in the language of federal law and turning to federal officials to claim rights. ER -