Bain Attwood

Empire and the Making of Native Title

Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In 1981 a novel question was addressed by an Australian historian, more or less for the first time. Why had the British Crown denied - or failed to recognise - the Aboriginal people's sovereignty and rights in land? Alan Frost argued that this occurred because the British government acted in accordance with the international legal conventions of the mid-eighteenth century, or more especially a particular legal decorum called terra nullius, a Latin word meaning a land without a sovereign or a land belonging to no one."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 193mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478298
• ISBN-10: 1108478298
• Artikelnr.: 59864061

Autorenporträt

Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University and has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. His book Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009) won the Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand. He is the author of Rights for Aborigines (2003) and the co-editor of Protection and Empire: A Global History (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Principal Players
Maps
Introduction
1. Claiming Possession in New Holland and New Zealand, 1770s-1820s
2. Batman's Treaty and the Rise and Fall of Native Title, 1835-1836
3. The South Australian Colonisation Commission, the Colonial Office, and Aboriginal Rights in Land, 1834-1837
4. Protection Claims and Sovereignty in the Islands of New Zealand, 1800-1839
5. Making Agreements and a Struggle for Authority, 1839-1840
6. The Land Claims Commission and the Return of the Treaty, 1840-1843
7. A Colony in Crisis and a Select Committee, 1843-1844
8. The Retreat of the Government and the Rise of the Treaty, 1844-1845
9. The Making of Native Title, 1845-1850
Conclusion
Appendix (The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi)
Bibliography
Index