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Land Distribution and the Expansion of the American Landscape

In: Agricultural Policy of the United States

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  • Stephanie A. Mercier

    (Farm Journal Foundation)

  • Steve A. Halbrook

    (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)

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Access to land and land ownership became a critical element in the success of the early European settlements of North America. This chapter explores Native American concepts of land ownership, and the feudal origins of European ideas of land ownership and how that affected the development of the US land tenure system in the colonial era. It also discusses the post-revolutionary policy decisions that shaped the subsequent pattern of settlement and land ownership, and the territorial expansion of the United States across North America.

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  • Stephanie A. Mercier & Steve A. Halbrook, 2020. "Land Distribution and the Expansion of the American Landscape," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, in: Agricultural Policy of the United States, chapter 0, pages 25-35, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psachp:978-3-030-36452-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_3
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