A Squatter's Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850-1900

by Tamara Venit Shelton

A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age--and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence.

Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age--and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873282558
• ISBN13: 9780873282550
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Huntington Library Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"