The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa : Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories / by Line-Noue Memea Kruse.

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The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa : Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories / by Line-Noue Memea Kruse.

9783319699714
3319699717

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XVII, 211 pages 2 illustrations in color.) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-319-69971-4 doi

320.4

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions between indigenous customary land tenure practices in American Sāmoa and Western notions of individual private ownership. It also highlights how unusual the status of American Sāmoa is in its relationship with the U.S., namely as the only "unincorporated" and "unorganized" overseas territory, and aims to expand the U.S. empire-building scholarship to include and recognize American Sāmoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects.

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