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Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836

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Description for Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 Paperback. A study of law and imperialism, this title argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; HBTQ; JFSL9; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674061880
SKU
V9780674061880
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About Lisa Ford
Lisa Ford is the author of the prizewinning Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 and coauthor of Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850. She is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.

Reviews for Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836
The key to understanding Australian attitudes to the law lies deep in our history, as Lisa Ford shows with great forensic flair… [This] is comparative history at its best. Ford moves confidently between the two societies and appears equally at home in both. Both the similarities and the differences are revealing. Each study enlightens the other. This is so because ... Read more

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