Empire and the Making of Native Title

Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-74570-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attwood, Bain

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Attwood, Bain
Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University and has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. His book Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009) won the Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand. He is the author of Rights for Aborigines (2003) and the co-editor of Protection and Empire: A Global History (2018).