Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.

Allan Greer is a professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America at McGill University, Montréal. He has published seven books, including Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2005) and La Nouvelle-France et le monde (2009).

1. Introduction: property and colonization; Part I. Three Zones Of Colonization: 2. Indigenous forms of property; 3. Early contacts; 4. New Spain; 5. New France; 6. New England; Part II. Aspects of Property Formation: 7. The colonial commons; 8. Spaces of property; 9. A survey of surveying; 10. Empires and colonies; Part III. Conclusion and Epilogue: 11. Property and dispossession in an age of revolution.