Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 /
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 /
edited by Saliha Belmessous.
- 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Originally issued in hardcover 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Problem of Indigenous Claim Making in Colonial History / Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interpolity Law / Law, Land, and Legal Rhetoric in Colonial New Spain: A Look at the Changing Rhetoric of Indigenous Americans in the Sixteenth Century / Court and Chronicle: A Native Andean's Engagement with Spanish Colonial Law / Powhatan Legal Claims / Wabanaki versus French and English Claims in Northeastern North America, c. 1715 / "Chief Princes and Owners of All": Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early-Modern British Atlantic / Framing and Reframing the Agon : Contesting Narratives and Counternarratives on Maori Property Rights and Political Constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / "Bring this paper to the Good Governor": Aboriginal Petitioning in Britain's Australian Colonies / The Native Land Court: Making Property in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand / t African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Saliha Belmessous -- Lauren benton -- R J Baber -- R. Adorno -- A. Fitzmaurice -- Saliha Belmessous -- C. Yirush -- Mark Hickford -- A Curthoys -- C Hilliard -- K. Mann. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the 20th century indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession.
9780199386116
Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Indigenous peoples--Claims--History.
K3248.L36 / N38 2011
341.4852
Originally issued in hardcover 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Problem of Indigenous Claim Making in Colonial History / Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interpolity Law / Law, Land, and Legal Rhetoric in Colonial New Spain: A Look at the Changing Rhetoric of Indigenous Americans in the Sixteenth Century / Court and Chronicle: A Native Andean's Engagement with Spanish Colonial Law / Powhatan Legal Claims / Wabanaki versus French and English Claims in Northeastern North America, c. 1715 / "Chief Princes and Owners of All": Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early-Modern British Atlantic / Framing and Reframing the Agon : Contesting Narratives and Counternarratives on Maori Property Rights and Political Constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / "Bring this paper to the Good Governor": Aboriginal Petitioning in Britain's Australian Colonies / The Native Land Court: Making Property in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand / t African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Saliha Belmessous -- Lauren benton -- R J Baber -- R. Adorno -- A. Fitzmaurice -- Saliha Belmessous -- C. Yirush -- Mark Hickford -- A Curthoys -- C Hilliard -- K. Mann. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the 20th century indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession.
9780199386116
Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Indigenous peoples--Claims--History.
K3248.L36 / N38 2011
341.4852