contested empire peter skene von reid john (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense. Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden, Reid finds that both side largely avoided violence and other difficulties because they held the same definitions of property, contract, conversion, and possession.In 1824, the Hudson's Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the furbearing animal population of the Snake River country, thus marking the region a 'fur desert.' With this mandate, Great Britain hoped to neutralize any interest American furtrappers could have in the area. Such a mandate set British and American fur men on a collision course, but Ogden and his American counterparts implicitly followed a kind of law and procedure and observed a mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for control of the fur trade.Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what had otherwise been considered a 'lawless' time.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 258 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores and explains the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of the old Oregon territory when claimed by their two nations in the early nineteenth century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 258 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Reid, John Phillip. Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions. Norman, [OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]. xiii, 258 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $20. * Contents: List of Maps; Foreword, by Martin Ridge; Chapter 1: To Prevent Disputes and Differences; Chapter 2: The Wild and Untrammelled Life; Chapter 3: One of the Most Unprincipled Men; Chapter 4: We Hold this Country by so Slight a Tenure; Chapter 5: They are Too Lazy to Come in with Their Furs; Chapter 6: No Money Would Induce Me to Risk Again; Chapter 7: Let Rules be Made They Will Soon be Broken; Chapter 8: We Must Endeavour to Annoy Them; Chapter 9: Do You Know in Whose Country You Are?; Chapter 10: Go We Will Where We Shall Be Paid; Chapter 11: They Are Now to be Found in All Parts of the Snake Country; Chapter 12: The Cheapest Shop Will Carry the Day; Chapter 13: It is a Lottery with All Expeditions; Chapter 14: Our Own People are Now Perfectly Satisfied; Chapter 15: The Country Virtually Falls into Our Keeping; Notes; Short Title List; Acknowledgments; Index.

Zustand: nf/nf. ISBN: 0806133740 Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover with dust jacket, 258 pages. Clean, tight, unamrked copy.