Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 includes indigenous voices in the debate over European appropriation of overseas territories. It is concerned with European efforts to negotiate with indigenous peoples the cession of their sovereignty through treaties.
Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 includes indigenous voices in the debate over European appropriation of overseas territories. It is concerned with European efforts to negotiate with indigenous peoples the cession of their sovereignty through treaties.
Saliha Belmessous is a senior research fellow at the University of New South Wales. She researches and writes about European colonial ideologies and the imperial experiences of indigenous peoples. She has held research fellowships in the United States and Australia. Her most recent publications include Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press, 2013); she is the editor of Native claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2012).
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* Acknowledgments * List of maps and illustrations * 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty * Saliha Belmessous * 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion * Arthur Weststeijn * 3. To "Clear the King's and Indians' Title ": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties * Daniel Richter * 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) * Tamar Herzog * 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) * Alain Beaulieu * 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India * Robert Travers * 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) * Rebecca Shumway * 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History * Saliha Belmessous * 9. "A text for every agitator amongst the natives ": M?ori property, settler politics and the M?ori franchise in the 1850s * Damen Ward * 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies * Paul Patton * Contributors * Index
* Acknowledgments * List of maps and illustrations * 1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty * Saliha Belmessous * 2. 'Love Alone Is Not Enough': Treaties in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion * Arthur Weststeijn * 3. To "Clear the King's and Indians' Title ": Seventeenth-Century Origins of North American Land Cession Treaties * Daniel Richter * 4. Struggling Over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance-Making in the Heartland of South America (17th-18th Centuries) * Tamar Herzog * 5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of an Ambivalent System (1600-1867) * Alain Beaulieu * 6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth Century India * Robert Travers * 7. Palavers and Treaty-Making in the British Acquisition of the Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) * Rebecca Shumway * 8. The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History * Saliha Belmessous * 9. "A text for every agitator amongst the natives ": M?ori property, settler politics and the M?ori franchise in the 1850s * Damen Ward * 10. The 'lessons of history': the ideal of treaty in settler colonial societies * Paul Patton * Contributors * Index
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