Harvard historical studies Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836
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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674061888
ISBN 13
9780674061880
LCCN
K3247.F67
DDC
346.01
Category
Indigenous Law
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Volume
166
Pages
313
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Abstract
"In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilization were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales. In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction. In Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples." - Voila
Description
Contents:
Jurisdiction, territory, and sovereignty in empire -- Pluralism as policy -- Indigenous jurisdiction and spatial order -- Legality and lawlessness -- The local limits of jurisdiction -- Farmbrough's fathoming and transitions in Georgia -- Lego'me and territoriality in New South Wales -- Perfect settler sovereignty.
Jurisdiction, territory, and sovereignty in empire -- Pluralism as policy -- Indigenous jurisdiction and spatial order -- Legality and lawlessness -- The local limits of jurisdiction -- Farmbrough's fathoming and transitions in Georgia -- Lego'me and territoriality in New South Wales -- Perfect settler sovereignty.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-299) and index.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1105 | IND FORD 2011 | 1 | Yes |