Record details

• ISBN: 9780520919167
• ISBN: 0520919165
• ISBN: 0585181586
• ISBN: 9780585181585
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 562 pages, [24] pages of plates) : illustrations, map
• Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-537) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. A treaty system: The Revolutionary War years ; Treaties of peace after the Revolution ; Treaty-making procedures under the Constitution ; Confirming the procedures : other treaties in the 1790s -- pt. 2. Instruments of federal policy: Testing the treaty system : 1800 to the War of 1812 ; A position of dominance : the War of 1812 and after ; Indian removal and the debate about treaty making ; The removal period in the North ; Patterns in treaty making ; Treaties in the expanding West ; The Civil War decade -- pt. 3. Deterioration: The end of treaty making ; Treaty substitutes ; The collapse of the treaty system -- pt. 4. Renewal : the twentieth century: Treaties in the new century ; Treaties before the Supreme Court ; Treaty-rights activism.

Source of Description Note:

Print version record.

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USA Government
Indians of North America > Treaties > History.
LAW > International.
Indians of North America > Treaties.

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Electronic books.
History.