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• Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Karin Hofmeester and Pim De Zwart (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of Europeans in the East and West Indies (8 volumes; London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788), by abbé Raynal, trans. by J. O. Justamond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• The Sky and the Forest (c1948), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley (originally published 2010; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), by Jeff Oliver (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021), ed. by Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Korea: Forgotten Nation (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1944), by Robert T. Oliver, contrib. by Syngman Rhee (page images at HathiTrust)

• From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2002), by Joseph B. Glass (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• A Bibliography of the First Fleet (Canberra et al.: Australian National University Press, 1981), by Victor Crittenden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas (c2013), ed. by John West-Sooby (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A View of the Art of Colonization, With Present Reference to the British Empire; In Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist, ed. by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (PDF at McMaster)
• The Control of the Tropics (New York: Macmillan, 1898), by Benjamin Kidd (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Plaine Path-Way to Plantations (London: Printed by G. P. for J. Marriot, 1624), by Richard Eburne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Plain Pathway To Plantations (1624) (Ithaca, NY: Pub. for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Cornell University Press, c1962), by Richard Eburne, ed. by Louis B. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• En Svensk Koloni i Afrika: eller, Svenska Afrikanska Kompaniets Historia (in Swedish; Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1879), by Victor Gottfrid Granlund (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on the Subject of Land Titles in California, Made in Pursuance of Instructions from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior (Washington: Gideon and Co., printers, 1850), by William Carey Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Kentucky Land Grants: A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924 (Filson Club publication #33; Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1925), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)

• First Ownership of Ohio Lands (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), by Albion Morris Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minutes of the Board of Property of the Province of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Archives, second series, v19 (only volume published under this title); Harrisburg, E.K. Meyers, State Printer, 1893), by Pennsylvania Land Office, ed. by William Henry Egle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Detailed Report Upon All Claims to Land and Right to Participate in the North-West Half-Breed Grant By Settlers Along the South Saskatchewan and Vicinity West of Range 26, W. 2nd Meridian: Being the Settlements Commonly Known As St. Louis De Langevin, St. Laurent or Batoche and Duck Lake (1886), by William Pearce (page images at Alberta)

• North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791 (1958), by Lillian Johnson Gardiner, ed. by Betty Goff Cook Cartwright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Constitution of the Republic of Mexico, and of the State of Coahuila and Texas; Containing Also an Abridgement of the Laws of the General and State Governments, Relating to Colonization; With Sundry Other Laws and Documents Not Before Published, Particularly Relating to Coahuila and Texas (New York: Ludwig and Tolefree, 1832), trans. by Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, contrib. by Mexico and Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Private Colonization of Land (reprinted from the American Economic Review, 1918), by Richard T. Ely
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #12; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by Walter Stitt Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• History of the New-England Emigrant Aid Company, With a Report on Its Future Operations, by New-England Emigrant Aid Company (page images at MOA)

• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch: or, Little Folks on Ponyback (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1918), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Julia Greene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch: or, The Cowboys' Double Round-Up (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1922), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Rover Boys on the Plains: or, The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1913), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Frank J. Murch (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Colonies in Space (originally published 1977), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Space Colonies (1977), ed. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)
• Space Settlements: A Design Study (Washington: Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977), ed. by Richard D. Johnson and Charles H. Holbrow (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? (London: UCL Press, 2017), ed. by Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Acte Général de la Conférence de Berlin (with its protocols, in French; ca. 1885), by Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Native Problem in Africa (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Raymond Leslie Buell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust

• Correspondence Relative to the Emigration to Hayti of the Free People of Colour in the United States, Together with the Instructions to the Agent Sent out by President Boyer (New York: Mahlon Day, 1824), by Loring Daniel Dewey and Jean Pierre Boyer (page images at Florida)

• Enquête sur les Résultats de la Colonisation Officielle de 1871 à 1895: Rapport à Monsieur Jonnart, Gouverneur Général de l'Algérie (2 volumes in 1, in French; Algiers: Impr. Torrent, 1906), by H. de Peyerimhoff, contrib. by Algeria Direction de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et de la Colonisation
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Special Study of the Portuguese Provinces: A Place for Pioneers (New York : American-African Affairs Association, 1968), by James Jackson Kilpatrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Alida C. Metcalf (HTML at UC Press)

• Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa: An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725-c. 1830 (c2008), by Laura Jane Mitchell (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Report, To Accompany S. Res. 68 and Mis. Doc. 59 (on the occupation of the Congo country in Africa; Washington: GPO, 1884), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• L'Italia e la Sua Colonia Africana (in Italian; Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1891), by Leopoldo Franchetti
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mormon Towns in the Region of the Colorado (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #32; 1958), by Leland Hargrave Creer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Special Study of the Portuguese Provinces: A Place for Pioneers (New York : American-African Affairs Association, 1968), by James Jackson Kilpatrick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Brief Advertisement Concerning East-New-Jersey, in America (Edinburgh: J. Reid, 1685), by George Scot, contrib. by James Drummond Perth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Eventful History of The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H. M. S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (third edition; London: J. Murray and T. Tegg, 1839), by John Barrow, illust. by Robert Batty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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