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Possessing the Pacific

Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska

Stuart Banner

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674026124

Publication Date: 11/30/2007

400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones, 1 map

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Stuart Banner is Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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