Empire and the making of native title : sovereignty, property and indigenous people
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Empire and the making of native title : sovereignty, property and indigenous people
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : hardback
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-431) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention from the original European claims of possession to a comparison of the ways in which British players treated these matters later, Bain Attwood not only reveals some startling similarities between the Australian and New Zealand cases but revises the long-held explanations of the differences. He argues that the treatment of the sovereignty and property rights of First Nations was seldom determined by the workings of moral principle, legal doctrine, political thought or government policy. Instead, it was the highly particular historical circumstances in which the first encounters between natives and Europeans occurred and colonisation began that largely dictated whether treaties of cession were negotiated, just as a bitter political struggle determined the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi and ensured that native title was made in New Zealand.
Table of Contents
- 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
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