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The “Middle Ground” Perspective on the Expropriation of Indian Lands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Eric Kades
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Abstract

In How the Indians Lost Their Land, Law and Power on the Frontier (2005), Stuart Banner weaves together a perceptive interpretation of the historical record, with a novel economic analysis of conflicts, to create a sophisticated narrative of the process by which European colonists took control of the lands that now comprise the United States. Banner's view of expropriation falls somewhere between the parsimony of an economic model and the richness of a traditional historical account. It forms part of a growing trend to focus on finding positive facts about the taking of Indian lands, as opposed to making normative judgments.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , Summer 2008 , pp. 827 - 839
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2008 

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