Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens

Broschiertes Buch

Barron Field in New South Wales

The Poetics of Terra Nullius

Beschreibung

Asked to determine whether Governor Macquarie had authority to impose taxes in New South Wales, Barron Field issued a fateful judgement that established, for the first time, what is now called terra nullius. This book is an extraordinary reconstruction of the circumstances and implications of Field’s actions.

Autor

Thomas H. Ford is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University. His previous titles include How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps (Routledge, 2021) and the prize-winning Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air: Atmospheric Romanticism in a Time of Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Justin Clemens has published extensively on the relationships between poetry, psychology and philosophy in Romantic and post-Romantic writing, including Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). He is an Associate Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780522878783
• ISBN-10: 0522878784
• Artikelnr.: 67083681