Empire's reach : law, history, colonialism
This work brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in an exploration of imperialism. In essays, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, it offers perspectives on the length and breadth of empire.
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2001
History
xii, 307 pages ; 24 cm.
9780719060663, 0719060664
1013239268
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.]