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ERIC Number: EJ401306
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Canaanites in a Promised Land: The American Indian and the Providential Theory of Empire.
Cave, Alfred E.
American Indian Quarterly, v12 n4 p277-97 Fall 1988
Reviews sixteenth-and seventeenth-century writings by Rastell, More, Eden, Hakluyt, Peckham, Gray, Symonds, Johnson, Strachey, Purchas, Winthrop, and Cotton justifying English occupation of Indian lands through the Biblical Canaan analogy and the secular "vacant land" (vacuum domicilium) principle. Notes dissent by Crashaw, Williams, and others. Contains 95 references. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Colonial History (United States), Culture Conflict, Imperialism, Land Settlement, Political Attitudes, Racial Bias, Religious Factors
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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