Empire by Treaty

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Acknowledgments List of maps and illustrations 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty Saliha Belmessous 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion Arthur Weststeijn 3. To : Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties Daniel Richter 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) Tamar Herzog 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) Alain Beaulieu 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India Robert Travers 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) Rebecca Shumway 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History Saliha Belmessous 9. : M?ori property, settler politics and the M?ori franchise in the 1850s Damen Ward 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies Paul Patton Contributors Index