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Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People

Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People

Author: Bain Attwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108478298
Published In: July 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

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