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Law, history, colonialism : the reach of empire / edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Publisher: [La Vergne, Tenn. : Lightning Source, 2010Description: xii, 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719081955
  • 9780719081958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.28 22
Contents:
Introduction / Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne -- 1. Terminal legality: imperialism and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- 2. Law's empire: chartering English colonies on the American mainland in the seventeenth century / Christopher Tomlins -- 3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New South Wales and Upper Canada, 1788-1837 / John McLaren -- 4. 'Race' definition run amuck: 'slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939 / Constance Backhouse -- 5. The paradox of 'ultra-democratic' government: indigenous civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia / Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain -- 6. 'When there's no safety in numbers': fear and the franchise in South Africa - the case of Natal / Julie Evans and David Philips -- 7. Making 'mad' populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum / Catharine Coleborne -- 8. Towards a 'taxonomy' for the common law: legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law / Mark D. Walters -- 9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright -- 10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown's narrative defence of the 'New Britain raid' / Helen Gardner -- 11. The fate of Maori land rights in early colonial New Zealand: the limits of the Treaty of Waitangi and the doctrine of Aboriginal title / Ann Parsonson -- 12. 'Because it does not make sense': sovereignty's power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen 1997 / John Borrows -- 13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia / Hilary Golder and Diane Kirkby -- 14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: the case of the New Zealand Native Land Purchase Ordinance of 1846 / John C. Weaver -- 15. International law - recognizing the Third World? Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna River Basin / Radha D'Souza -- 16. Historians and native title: the question of evidence / Christine Choo -- 17. 'Race', gender and nation in history and law / Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys and Ian Duncanson / [et. al.].
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"First published 2001 by Manchester University Press. First digital, on-demand edition produced by Lightning Source 2010"--T.p. verso.

Catharine Coleborne is Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne -- 1. Terminal legality: imperialism and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- 2. Law's empire: chartering English colonies on the American mainland in the seventeenth century / Christopher Tomlins -- 3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New South Wales and Upper Canada, 1788-1837 / John McLaren -- 4. 'Race' definition run amuck: 'slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939 / Constance Backhouse -- 5. The paradox of 'ultra-democratic' government: indigenous civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia / Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain -- 6. 'When there's no safety in numbers': fear and the franchise in South Africa - the case of Natal / Julie Evans and David Philips -- 7. Making 'mad' populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum / Catharine Coleborne -- 8. Towards a 'taxonomy' for the common law: legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law / Mark D. Walters -- 9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright -- 10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown's narrative defence of the 'New Britain raid' / Helen Gardner -- 11. The fate of Maori land rights in early colonial New Zealand: the limits of the Treaty of Waitangi and the doctrine of Aboriginal title / Ann Parsonson -- 12. 'Because it does not make sense': sovereignty's power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen 1997 / John Borrows -- 13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia / Hilary Golder and Diane Kirkby -- 14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: the case of the New Zealand Native Land Purchase Ordinance of 1846 / John C. Weaver -- 15. International law - recognizing the Third World? Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna River Basin / Radha D'Souza -- 16. Historians and native title: the question of evidence / Christine Choo -- 17. 'Race', gender and nation in history and law / Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys and Ian Duncanson / [et. al.].

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