Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Journal of Early American History
Abstract
By the end of the seventeenth century, Anglo-Americans on both sides of the Atlantic accepted the importance of surveying to any system of land ownership. Most historians of colonial British have similarly taken colonial surveying practices as a given. This article complicates these assumptions through an examination of Pennsylvania in a wider context. In fact, land policy in colonial Anglo-America differed significantly from practices elsewhere in the early modern world. English colonizers embraced a model of settler colonialism that created a market for land, thus encouraging the proliferation of modern surveying practices.
Recommended Citation
Gallo, Marcus, "Land Surveying in Early Pennsylvania: A Case Study in a Global Context" (2019). 2019 Faculty Bibliography. 68.
https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2019/68
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