Railroads, Lands, and Politics

Railroads, Lands, and Politics

Author: Leslie Edward Decker

Publisher: Providence : Brown University Press

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.


Translating Property

Translating Property

Author: Maria E. Montoya

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-03-29

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0520227441

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.