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The article focuses on problem of possession and dispossession of territories, lands and natural resources, their mechanisms and modalities, as well as the sociology of their protagonists, constantly recreated, within the framework of long-term colonial expansion. It mentions need to limit the scope of colonialism to the expansion of presumed "European property." It also mentions the land practice of the Iberian monarchies on the American continent.

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